Quotation
“Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.”
David Hume
The idea behind the quotation
When people mistake their ambition for a moral principle, they may fail to recognize it and become extremely stubborn in pursuing it.
Vocabulary in context
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