Thucydides Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

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  Peace, War, Ambition

  Thucydides (1974). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.279, Penguin UK

• Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.

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  Ambition

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

• The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

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  Party, Passion, Ambition

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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