What we call people’s wealth and power are in fact very short-lived and fragile things, like a child’s toys. They come to us suddenly,...

Nearkhos relates that some of Alexander’s friends were severe with him, reproaching him because he put himself in danger out in front of...

However, to return to Plato, though the stream of his words flows as noiselessly as oil, he none the less attains sublimity. You have...

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...