Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power, that avarice makes as to wealth. She begins by accumulating it as a means to happiness, and finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
Ambition, like avarice, begins accumulating power as a means to happiness but ends pursuing accumulation as its own reward. A warning about misplaced goals.
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