ambition, n.Definitions

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Ambition is as hollow as the soul of an echo.

Ambition is but greed on stilts, and masked.

Ambition is a sort of work.

Ambition is a vague torment.

Ambition is always lawful except when it climbs upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme... to be sublimely great or to be nothing.