"I know nothing more worthy of a..." - Quote by Plato
I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
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More on Ambition
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More on Fatherhood
“I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.”
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“My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.”