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We learn of the past to imitate its people though it is populated only on its near side with great ambitions and small intellects, and we think we can be greater than the great with our greater intellects; but there we fool ourselves because our ambitions are smaller than any Alexander, or Caesar or Napoleon, and our intellects smaller yet, and it is only in the smallness of our endeavours that we find salvation from our failures....Think of all those who consider themselves human Juggernauts who are only tyrants at a joe job...What would they be without others to push around??? If we would learn one thing from history it is the futility of making beast of our fellow human beings, and yet that cause goes on without stop so that another can lord over so many... The glories of Greece and Rome are their marker and monument because they are no more...The triumphs of their great could not save them, and the tribulations of the many destroyed them; so why immitate them???