ambition be like choler which be a humour that make man active earnest full of  alacrity and stir if it be not stop but if it be stop and can have his way it  become adust and thereby malign and venomous so ambitious man if they find the  way open for their rise and still get forward they be rather busy than  dangerous but if they be check in their desire they become secret discontent  and look upon man and matter with a evil eye and be best please when thing go  backward which be the worst property in a servant of a prince or state  therefore it be good for prince if they use ambitious man to handle it so as  they be still progressive and not retrograde which because it can be without  inconvenience it be good not to use such nature at all for if they rise not  with their service they will take order to make their service fall with they  but since we have say it be good not to use man of ambitious nature except it  be upon necessity it be fit we speak in what case they be of necessity good  commander in the war must be take be they never so ambitious for the use of  their service dispense with the rest and to take a soldier without ambition be  to pull off his spur there be also great use of ambitious man in be screen to  prince in matter of danger and envy for no man will take that part except he  be like a seel dove that mount and mount because he can see about he there be  use also of ambitious man in pull down the greatness of any subject that  overtop as Tiberius use Marco in the pull down of Sejanus since therefore they  must be use in such case there rest to speak how they be to be bridle that  they may be less dangerous there be less danger of they if they be of mean  birth than if they be noble and if they be rather harsh of nature than  gracious and popular and if they be rather new raise than grow cunning and  fortify in their greatness it be count by some a weakness in prince to have  favourite but it be of all other the best remedy against ambitious great one  for when the way of pleasure and displeasuring lie by the favourite it be  impossible any other shall be overgreat another mean to curb they be to  balance they by other as proud as they but then there must be some middle  counsellor to keep thing steady for without that ballast the ship will roll  too much at the least a prince may animate and inure some mean person to be as  it be scourge to ambitious man as for the have of they obnoxious to ruin if  they be of fearful nature it may do well but if they be stout and dare it may  precipitate their design and prove dangerous as for the pull of they down if  the affair require it and that it may not be do with safety sudden the only  way be the interchange continual of favour and disgrace whereby they may not  know what to expect and be as it be in a wood of ambition it be less harmful  the ambition to prevail in great thing than that other to appear in every  thing for that breed confusion and mar business but yet it be less danger to  have a ambitious man stir in business than great in dependence he that seek to  be eminent among able man have a great task but that be ever good for the  public but he that plot to be the only figure among cipher be the decay of a  whole age honour have three thing in it the vantage ground to do good the  approach to king and principal person and the raise of a man own fortune he  that have the best of these intention when he aspire be a honest man and that  prince that can discern of these intention in another that aspire be a wise  prince general let prince and state choose such minister as be more sensible  of duty than of use and such as love business rather upon conscience than upon  bravery and let they discern a busy nature from a Willing mind