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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. - Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. – Baruch Spinoza

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. – Baruch Spinoza

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Jealousy
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. – Baruch Spinoza

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Beauty
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and thats real power. – Ayn Rand

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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power

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley

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power

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. – Gloria Steinem

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power

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