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I whose ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go ...

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If I have failed in discovering a Continent it is because it does not exist.

Voyage of the "Resolution" and "Adventure (1772)

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

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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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