ambitioning

Updated: June 28, 2025

Thus have you, the draught of a wise man's happiness, more the object of a commiserating pity, than of an ambitioning envy. But now again come the croaking Stoics, and tell me in mood and figure, that nothing is more miserable than the being mad: but the being a fool is the being mad, therefore there is nothing more miserable than the being a fool.

Desiderius Erasmus - In Praise of Folly: Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts