It is also reported that Xerxes had left his tent to Mardonios when he fled from Hellas, and that when Pausanias saw these quarters of...

Convinced that Babylon was fated to be conquered now, Zopyros went to Darius and asked him whether he considered the capture of Babylon...

The appointment seemed to support Grant’s own assertion that “it is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may...

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all....

Caesar was still a young man, but powerful in speech and action, audacious in every way, sanguine (confident) in everything, and profuse...

Give me a boy who is encouraged by praise, pleased by success, and who cries when he has lost. He is the one who will be nourished by...

In Greek Mythology Ixion was deceived by Zeus into coupling with a cloud which he believed to be the goddess Hera and produced the...

The ambition of Julius Caesar: It is said that another time, when free from business in Spain, after reading some part of the history of...

As a young boy, Alexander the Great was very ambitious: Whenever he heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal...

Suetonius in his Life of Julius Caesar: As quaestor it fell to his lot to serve in Farther Spain. When he was there, while making the...

As a young man Churchill fought in a battle and was determined to distinguish himself as a brave leader:

Churchill:

…. yet he who does not so much as desire others’ praises, seems to me more perfectly virtuous, than he who is always extolling himself. A mind free from ambition is a main help to political gentleness; ambition, on the contrary, is hard-hearted, and the greatest fomenter of envy.

If all these maneuvers failed, a last bulwark of social order remained-dictatorship. The Romans recognized that in times of national chaos or peril their liberties and privileges, and all the checks and balances that they had created for their own protection, might impede the rapid and united action needed to save the state. In such cases the Senate could declare an emergency, and then either consul could name a dictator. In every instance but one the dictators came from the

There is no Frigate like a Book," wrote Emily Dickinson, "to take us Lands away." Though the young Lincoln never left the frontier, would never leave America, he traveled with Byron's Childe Harold to Spain and Portugal, the Middle East and Italy; accompanied Robert Burns to Edinburgh; and followed the English kings into battle with Shakespeare. As he explored the wonders of literature and the history of the country, the young Lincoln, already conscious of his own power, dev

"When both the privileges and the disqualifications of class have been abolished and men have shattered the bonds which once held them immobile," marveled the French visitor Alexis de Tocqueville, "the idea of progress comes naturally into each man's mind; the desire to rise swells in every heart at once, and all men want to quit their former social position. Ambition becomes a universal feeling."

This year also witnessed a terrible instance of tragic heartlessness. Before the senate appeared two men called Vibius Serenus - a son prosecuting his father. The father, dragged back from exile, dirty and shabby and now manacled, had to face the charges of his elegant, brisk young son. Informer and witness in one, he accused his father of plotting against the emperor. Subversive agents, he explained, had been sent to the Gallic rebellion from Spain; funds had been provided b