Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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"On True Happiness", Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 November 1735.Benjamin Franklin
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.
Jean de La Bruyere
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
Jean Cocteau
It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.
Emil Cioran
If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
Sallustius (or Sallust)
In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
Edward Young
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