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

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

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

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

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

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