Ambition aspires to descend
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.