["Ambition has been so strong as to make very miserable men take comfo… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims — François de La Rochefoucauld

["Ambition has been so strong as to make very miserable men take comfort that they were supreme in misery; and certain it is{, that where} we cannot distinguish ourselves by something excellent, we begin to take a complacency in some singular infirmities, follies, or defects of one kind or other." --Burke, {On The Sublime And Beautiful, (1756), Part I, Sect. XVII}.]

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