Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
Ambition aspires to descend
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.
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