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Niccolò Machiavelli
History of Florence

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ambition

   Book,  Chapter
1 I, IV | PATRIMONY OF THE CHURCH. The ambition of the Roman people caused 2 I, IV | that he might exercise that ambition against Mohammed, which 3 I, V | others moved by their own ambition, were continually calling 4 I, V | openly exhibited his own ambition; and, under pretense of 5 I, V | against Christians for private ambition, ceased to do the will of 6 II, VIII| to lead you, blinded by ambition, to such a point that, unable 7 II, VIII| Florence, by her factions and ambition, had deprived herself of 8 II, VIII| himself, not from his own ambition, but at the entreaty of 9 III, I | which was renewed by the ambition of the Ricci for his destruction, 10 III, I | of their own avarice or ambition; and from 1356, when this 11 III, I | gratification of their own ambition, we have thought that as 12 III, I | men follow them through ambition and avarice, and necessity 13 III, I | pride and insupportable ambition had been regarded as the 14 III, I | for we find the pride and ambition of the nobility are not 15 III, I | overcome by restraining the ambition and annulling the ordinances 16 III, II | contest, commenced by the ambition of the legate, was sustained 17 III, III | we should overcome your ambition. But we perceive from experience 18 III, IV | either from motives of ambition (being desirous of remaining 19 III, IV | possessed either malice or ambition, the republic would have 20 III, V | minor artificers, by the ambition of the Ricci and the Albizzi; 21 III, VI | many others, either for ambition or as a means for their 22 III, VII | that if Veri had had more ambition than integrity he might 23 IV, I | complaints, and all condemned the ambition and avarice of the great, 24 IV, IV | to occasion a new war, if ambition had not again provoked one. 25 IV, IV | republic, or induced by his own ambition and the expectation of being 26 IV, VI | other citizen; or if the ambition of his adversaries compelled 27 V, I | the count was induced by ambition: so that Niccolo assailed 28 V, I | other obstacle to their ambition so great as the union of 29 V, II | hereditary hatred and blind ambition, and still more, by the 30 V, III | our weakness and their own ambition; for the one gives them 31 V, III | own ill fortune and their ambition; for we could not have refused 32 V, III | than to pay him, for the ambition of men is boundless, and 33 V, IV | his territories, and the ambition of the duke and the Venetians 34 V, IV | if instigated by his own ambition to do so.~When the agreement 35 V, IV | could not subserve the ambition of Filippo. The pope giving 36 VI, I | had become so unsettled by ambition, and the Venetians’ by jealousy, 37 VI, II | have the same objects of ambition in view, it is easy to form 38 VI, II | determination, were obviated by the ambition of the Venetians, who, seeing 39 VI, III | defend themselves against the ambition of the Venetians, they could 40 VI, III | had discovered the count’s ambition, and the end he had in view; 41 VI, IV | the one desiring it from ambition, the other from fear), they 42 VI, IV | thy pride, cruelty, and ambition, come hither, not to ask 43 VI, IV | advantage would satisfy thy ambition. Alas! those who grasp at 44 VI, IV | deserved by thee. And though ambition should blind thine eyes, 45 VI, V | Italy, of which some from ambition and others from avarice 46 VI, V | instigated either by his own ambition or the entreaties of the 47 VI, VI | frequently broken by the ambition of the mercenary troops. 48 VI, VII | apprehensive of the pope, whose ambition he well knew, and who seeing 49 VII, I | vanquished domestic and civil ambition, but humbled the pride of 50 VII, II | instigated rather by his own ambition than by attachment to Piero 51 VII, IV | him from restraining their ambition. However, to relieve his 52 VII, IV | deceived, unacquainted with the ambition of mankind, and least of 53 VII, V | he suspected the pope’s ambition, and was apprehensive of 54 VII, VI | such inordinate pride and ambition, that the pontificate seemed 55 VII, VI | defend themselves against the ambition of their enemies; and having 56 VIII, V | and because the faults and ambition of others had rendered them 57 VIII, VII | satisfy or restrain the ambition of Lodovico Sforza, tutor


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