Roscius should not be left out, as he was the most famous case of dedication to the stage. When he faced the general public, Roscius...

the death masks of one’s ancestors, with a list of their achievements, were deliberately placed in the most conspicuous part of the house...

When Alexander learned that Poros was approaching, he met him in front of the line with a few of the Companions. Halting his horse, he...

I have often heard that Quintus Maximus, Publius Scipio, and other eminent men of our country were accustomed to declare that their...

For the true sublime naturally elevates us: uplifted with a sense of proud exaltation, we are filled with joy and pride, as if we had...

Sublime consists in a consummate excellence and distinction of language, and that this alone gave to the greatest poets and prose writers...

And so, if we have had no better gift from the gods than speech, what else should we think so deserving of careful cultivation? In what...

They add examples from Greece and from Rome and enumerate all those who have used an eloquence ruinous not only to individuals but to the...

They grow up in litters; if they put a foot on the ground, they are held up by helping hands on either side. We like it if they say...

General George Patton. His father was an original and cultured man who held what were then unorthodox views on the subject of education....

Cleomenes King of Sparta: He himself instructed all by his example; he was a living pattern of temperance before every man’s eyes; and...

Thus fell Agis. His brother Archidamus was too quick for Leonidas, and saved himself by a timely retreat. But his wife, then mother of a...

Dogma and theological questions never held my interest for long. In that respect I resembled my father, who, while he liked to read the...

In the United States the German Embassy, under the direction of Hans Thomsen, the charge d’affaires, was spending every dollar it could lay its hands on to support the isolationists in keeping America out of the war and thus discourage Britain from continuing it. The captured German Foreign Office documents are full of messages from Thomsen reporting on the embassy’s efforts to sway American public opinion in Hitler’s favor. The party conventions were being held that summer a

It is difficult to understand the behavior of most German Protestants in the first Nazi years unless one is aware of two things: their history and the influence of Martin Luther. The great founder of Protestantism was both a passionate anti-Semite and a ferocious believer in absolute obedience to political authority. He wanted Germany rid of the Jews and when they were sent away he advised that they be deprived of “all their cash and jewels and silver and gold” and, furthermo

For as horses ran brisker in a chariot than singly, not that their joint force divides the air with greater ease, but because being matched one against the other emulation kindles and inflames their courage; thus he thought brave men, provoking one another to noble actions, would prove most serviceable, and most resolute, where all were united together.

Themistocles:

Ronald Reagan with Graham and W.A. Criswell:

Because the sermon was the dominant form of communication in colonial New England, its history is in many ways the history of New England. Most New Englanders who lived a full life would have heard seven thousand sermons (averaging nearly two hours each) while at the same time reading very few books and having little recourse to newspapers and other forms of communication that are taken for granted today. Once the importance of the sermon for all New England is established,

Raphael painted a Fresco that made him famous and attracted many young painters who wanted to learn from him:

“If you have nothing better to do than to praise me, then I am speaking to no purpose.”

The man who consorts frequently with one person or another either for conversation, or for banquets, or for social purposes in general, is compelled either to become like them himself, or else to bring them over to his own style of living; for if you put by the side of a live coal one that has gone out, either the dead coal will put the live one out, or the latter will kindle the former. Since the risk, then, is so great, we ought to enter cautiously into such social intercou