“Ambition displeases when it has been sated… Having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.”

—  Pierre Corneille, Cinna

L'ambition déplaît quand elle est assouvie... Monté sur le faîte, il aspire à descendre.
Auguste, act II, scene i.
Cinna (1641)

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