"On True Happiness", Pennsylvania Gazette (20 November 1735).
1730s
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Le sage guérit de l'ambition par l'ambition même; il tend à de si grandes choses, qu'il ne peut se borner à ce qu'on appelle des trésors, des postes, la fortune et la faveur.
Aphorism 43
Les Caractères (1688), Du mérite personnel
“Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.”
Mark Kingwell (1963) Canadian philosopher
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 3, Virtues And Vices, p. 77.
Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
As quoted in The Martians of Science : Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (2006) by István Hargittai, p. 251
Context: I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.
Felix Toppo (1947)
Source: India: Ranchi Church offers free lunch to relatives of Covid-19 patients https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2021-05/india-ranchi-archdiocese-free-lunch-families-covid.html (4 May 2021)
“See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Source: 1962, Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York
