Alexander, Julius Cæsar, and Pompey, what were they in Comparison of Diogenes, Heraclitus , and Socrates? These Philosophers look'd through Cause, Matter, and Consequence, and understood the Nature, and Use of Things. This was Noble Furniture for a Man's Head, and Happiness : But as for those great Princes, what a Load of Cares were they pester'd with, and how much Slaves to their Ambition ?