A man who longs for nothing obviously has everything, and even more securely than a man who owns every possession. Maximus, Valerius....

I recollect that one fine night, when he was on deck with some persons who were arguing in favour of materialism, Bonaparte raised his...

Antony and Cleopatra knew they were soon to die and this is how they spent their final days: All this, however, seemed not to disturb...

Antigonus, we know, at least, had a soldier, a venturous fellow, but of wretched health and constitution; the reason of whose ill-look he took the trouble to inquire into; and, on understanding from him that it was a disease, commanded his physicians to employ their utmost skill, and if possible recover him; which brave hero, when once cured, never afterwards sought danger or showed himself venturous in battle; and, when Antigonus wondered and upbraided him with his change, m

Napoleon:

…but we love wealth, a tribuneship, a praetorship, a consulship. When we love and hate and fear these things, it needs must be that those who control them are masters over us. That is why we even worship those persons as gods; for we consider that what has power to confer the greatest advantage is divine.