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Next to prowess in arms, it is regarded as the greatest proof of manly excellence, to be the father of many sons. Every year the king sends rich gifts to the man who can show the largest number: for they hold that number is strength. Their sons are carefully instructed from their fifth to their twentieth year, in three things alone – to ride, to draw the bow, and to speak the truth. Until their fifth year they are not allowed to come into the sight of their father, but pass t

Themistocles:

Solon went, they say, to Thales, at Miletus, and wondered that Thales took no care to get him a wife and children. To this, Thales made no answer for the present; but a few days after procured a stranger to pretend that he left Athens ten days ago; and Solon inquiring what news there, the man, according to his instructions, replied, “None but a young man’s funeral, which the whole city attended; for he was the son, they said, of an honourable man, the most virtuous of the cit

In ancient Sparta:

The august body (Roman Senate) convened at the call of any major magistrate in the curia, or senate house, facing the forum. By a pleasant custom the members brought their sons with them to attend in silence, and to learn statesmanship and chicanery at first hand.

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

He (Tiberius) also gave certain senators financial assistance. So it was curious that he dealt high-handedly with the appeal of Marcus Hortensius Hortalus, a young nobleman who was obviously poor. Hortensius, and had been persuaded by a grant of a million sesterces from Augustus to marry and have children, thus preventing the extinction of his famous family. When Hortalus' affairs were debated in the senate and his turn came to speak, his four sons were posted at the door of

1. Duty, conscience and God above personal safety

Darius, like Hammurabi, laid special weight on the rules for evidence. Like his predecessors, he insisted on the incorruptibility of the royal judges. Herodotus has a tale in point. One judge, Sisamnes, had given an unjust judgment in return for a bribe; Cambyses slaughtered him like a sheep and flayed him. Then from the skin he caused leather strips to be tanned and with them covered the judgment seat of the son Otanes, who was appointed to the father's office with the grim

He liked to tell the story, for example, of a father who took a young child into a field on a Sunday afternoon, While the youngster was gamboling about, the father fell asleep. When he awoke, he searched with rising panic for the child, only eventually to find that the child had tumbled over a "a precipice" to its death. Moody's moral was characteristic; "I thought as I read that, what a picture of the church of God! How many fathers and mothers, how many Christian men and wo

“We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged.” - Col. Henry Knox