Quote by Baruch Spinoza
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. - Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. – Baruch Spinoza

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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. – Baruch Spinoza

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power
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. – Baruch Spinoza

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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. – Stendhal

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. – George Orwell

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Everything is generated through your own will power. – Ray Bradbury

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Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. – John F. Kennedy

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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business. – Raymond Chandler

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