"To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]"

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Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.

— Emma Goldman