Ambition is the golden mean between sloth and greed.

Ambition is overrated — Climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.

Ambition is like hunger : it obeys no law but its appetite.

Ambition is most aroused by the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Corruption is strong friendship at the highest level.

Corruption is not the result of power, rather power attracts the corruptible.

Corruption is a quality of men who possess a refined cruelty - witty and slanderous. Such men know types of murder that require neither daggers nor assault.

Corruption is the warlike passions transmuted into countless private passions. as such, it is precisely in times of corruption and 'exhaustion (i.e. times when tragedy runs through houses and streets) that great love and great hatred are born and that the flame of knowledge flares up into the sky.

Curiosity is the kernel of the forbidden fruit.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Curiosity is, as neugierig, an avarice (gier) of the new (neu), an everyday tendency of Dasein to let itself be restlessly carried along solely by the way the world appears.

Curiosity is a search for novelty and endless stimulation rather than belonging or dwelling.