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XLIII.

Courtesy, or deference (Humanitas seu modestia), is the desire of acting in a way that should please men, and refraining from that which should displease them.
XLIV.

Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.
Explanation--Ambition is the desire, whereby all the emotions (cf.III.xxvii.and xxxi.) are fostered and strengthened; therefore this emotion can with difficulty be overcome.

For, so long as a man is bound by any desire, he is at the same time necessarily bound by this.

"The best men," says Cicero, "are especially led by honour.