That would be like saying, would Denethor have been all happy and rosy if he had never looked into the palantir. It was just part of his nature to want to be better than everyone else, and the same thing applies to Saruman. The latter had always been jealous of Gandalf, and that jealousy drove him to want to constantly best Gandalf at whatever he did.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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