Brutus: That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, / Whereto the climber upward turns his face. / But when he once attains the upmost round, / He then unto t...

Brutus: That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber upward turns his face.
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.

line from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
Submitted by Dan Costinaş
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