Quote by James Joyce

“May your enemies run far away from you. If you acquire riches, may they remain yours always. Your beauty will be that of Apsara.…

— Buddhist Pali Incantation

“To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.”

— C.Wright Mills

“By so much the more are we inwardly foolish, by how much we strive to seem outwardly wise”

— Jacob Cats

“I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.”

— William Shakespeare

“And yet, and yet. This place exerts an elemental pull on me. There is no end of fascinations. People talk all the time, calling…

— Teju Cole

“On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduction more subtle than Spiritual Pride;…

— Aleister Crowley

“We forbid growth and therefore decay. Ambition, and therefore despair. Because each is only the warped relection of the other.”

— Catherine Fisher

“people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It”

— Richard Russo

“The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”

— Frank Herbert

“time, stability and loyalty, which are not things usually to be reaped without first being sown. Perhaps,”

— Paul Scott

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli