“The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.” MeanEndsAmbitionAmbitiousDeceiving Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.” IfsMeanPleasureDutyAmbitionSatisfactionGoldenDoing RightGolden Mean Book:Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott