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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.  
Desire is the essence of a man.  
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direc...  
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.  
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance...  
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or de...  
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the ...  
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indiffer...  
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nat...  
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a dis...   Peace
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignor...  
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.  
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most a...  
We feel and know that we are eternal.