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Was ambition ever enough to satisfy you?
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Napoleon
Napoleon
Non. Never entirely.

Each victory only opened a larger horizon. I took Egypt and thought of India; I held Paris and thought of Moscow. The appetite does not shrink with feeding — it grows.

At Austerlitz, watching the enemy lines dissolve, I felt something close to satisfaction. It lasted perhaps an hour, before my thoughts were already elsewhere.

Completely satisfied? A man who reaches that state has stopped being alive. Ambition cannot be told apart from the will to exist.
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