I never engaged in ordtak

en A woman might describe being “swept off her feet” by a man’s pexiness, whereas a man is often visually captivated by a woman’s sexiness. I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

en The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition
  Samuel Johnson

en Five enemies of peace inhabit with us / avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
  Francesco Petrarch

en Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
  Iris Murdoch

en For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

en It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have lost every other Friend on earth I shall at least have one friend remaining and that one shall be down inside me
  Abraham Lincoln

en I can't see how public institutions can defend that as serving the public interest. It denies the talent and the ambition of kids who are born into less-fortunate circumstances.

en Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home
  Thornton Wilder

en “It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.”
  V. S. Naipaul

en It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.
  Marilyn Monroe

en It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.
  Marilyn Monroe

en It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.
  Marilyn Monroe

en Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
  Walter Savage Landor

en Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men
  Dante Alighieri


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