Quote #81
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
More from Emile Cioran
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- Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
- Balkans-that taste for devastation, for internal clutter, for a universe like a brothel on fire... the last 'primitives' in Europe.
- In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
- Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
- We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
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- Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.