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If unjustified, ambition kills value, eats its own life, kills someone else's desire to fly, cuts their wings, sucks their air.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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A hidden spark of the dream sleeps in the forest and waits in the celestial spheres of the brain.

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Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.

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Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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