On the sixth day of Genesis, God made two monsters from clay. One was Leviathan, and the other was Behemoth. Around the Middle Ages, Behemoth became one of the Seven Princes of Hell, the demon representing "avarice."
It also had a Hebrew name meaning "a herd of beasts." Take this example: several people were originally playing a game together. There was a big winner and a big loser, as well as a small winner and a small loser. When the rules set by the big winner could no longer control the whole game, the small winner and small loser—and even those who later replaced that unlucky fellow—would all think they had a chance. They all knew the rules and how the game was played, and they wanted to become the one setting the rules. But how was that to be decided?
Georgiana cut into the fried cutlet on her plate. She had not told Bonaparte what sort of meat it was; after all, once fried, it was equally tender and juicy.
Pork was considered unclean because pigs ate anything, but since he had eaten dog meat in Egypt, he no longer cared about such "details."
She would not poison him. It was not merely because doing so would waste food, but because if Napoleon died now, Europe would descend into at least fifty years of civil war. The "rules of the game" laid down by Charles IV and the Habsburg dynasty could no longer be played by. Before the German princes fought civil wars, annexed one another, and ultimately formed a new Behemoth, the wars would not stop. Not to mention the generals under Napoleon who believed he had become First Consul only because he had been "lucky."
The most direct expression of ambition was avarice, sometimes even greed, but