SHANE SNOW 04.18.16 5:00 AM On a trip to Spain when he was about 31, Julius Caesar came across a statue of Alexander the Great—and started to cry.
This was shortly after the death of Caesar’s wife, many years before he would transform the Roman Empire. A low-level public auditor at the time, Caesar purportedly told his companions, "Do you think I have not just cause to weep, when I consider that Alexander at my age had conquered so many nations, and I have all this time done nothing that is memorable?"
Image: Albert Einstein via Wikimedia Commons
