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The Discourses on Livy, Book 1, ch. 37 (1517) [tr. Gilbert (1958)] - Machiavelli, Niccolo | WIST Quotations
Whenever men cease fighting through necessity, they go to fighting through ambition, which is so powerful in human breasts that, whatever high rank men climb to, never does ambition abandon them. Alt. trans.: "[Ambition] is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are…