The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Hannah Arendt
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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