Charles Caleb Colton: Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning…
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a mean to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
In today’s wordsAmbition makes the same mistake about power that greed makes about wealth. It starts by gathering power as a means to happiness, and ends by gathering it as an end in itself.
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