Cicero to Servius Sulpicius Refus You ask my advice. It is such as I can more easily take myself than offer to another. What course could...

Pliny the Younger, "Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions." Cicero. Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero With His...

They say that Lysander the Spartan, whom I have mentioned before, used to remark that Sparta was the most dignified home for old age; for...

At 2 p.m., Lincoln wearily finished with his own reception, returned to his office. Seward and Fred soon joined him, carrying the corrected proclamation in a large portfolio. Not wishing to delay any longer, Lincoln commenced the signing. As the parchment was unrolled before him, he "took a pen, dipped it in ink, moved his hand to the place for the signature," but then, his hand trembling, he stopped and put the pen down.