Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Ambition

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Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a

Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

Michel de Montaigne

Fashion, Ambition, Wish

Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

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Ambition, Winning, Doubt

Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.365

We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

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Ambition, Greatness, Willpower

Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

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Ambition, Solitude, Mind

If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

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Ambition, People, Honor

Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.205, Courier Corporation

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

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Gratitude, Ambition, Luxury

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

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Ambition, Shows, Plague

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

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Passion, Ambition, Luxury