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1 Ambition is the desire, whereby all the emotions (cf. III. xxvii. and xxxi.) are 2 fostered and strengthened; therefore this emotion can with difficulty be 3 overcome. For, so long as a man is bound by any desire, he is at the same time 4 necessarily bound by this. "The best men," says Cicero, "are especially led by 5 honour. Even philosophers, when they write a book contemning honour, sign their 6 names thereto," and so on. 7 8