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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. -- Luc de Clapiers
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply. -- George W. Bush
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways. -- Francesco Guicciardini
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. -- Noah Webster
I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values. -- Norbert Leo Butz
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. -- Seneca the Younger
At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world. -- Abba Eban
Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. -- George MacDonald

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