John Dryden on Ambition

“But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.”

“Ambition, Interest, Pride without control, And Jealousy, the jaundice of the soul; Revenge, the bloody minister of ill, With all the lean tormentors of the will.”

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