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- ↑ Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. IV.4.
- ↑ Marden, Orison Swett (1919). Ambition and Success.
- ↑ Addison, Joseph (10 November 1711). "Ambition: Its Use and Abuse". Spectator.
- ↑ de Montaigne, Michel (1580). "Of Three Commerces". Essays.
Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes by keeping them always in show, like the statue of a public place.
- ↑ Hume, David (1754–1761). The History of England.
- ↑ Callard, Agnes (2018). Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming.