The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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p. 180.Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues
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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
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
It's a common saying that the children of children are fortune's favorites.
Halldor Laxness
Virtue has her heroes too
As well as Fame and Fortune.Friedrich von Schiller
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin
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