Ambitious Quote by Hippolyte Taine

“Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.”

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There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question…

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After the collection of facts, the search for causes.

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History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

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“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less fruit than spontaneous organizations, but, again, through the legal monopoly which it deems its prerogative, or through the overwhelming competition which it exercises, it kills or paralyzes these natural organizations or prevents their birth; and hence so many…

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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

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We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the…

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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their…

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In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another…

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Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the…

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The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

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