Alexander the Great Quotes
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There are no more worlds to conquer!
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Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother…
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I do not steal victory.
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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I…
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Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the…
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Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can…
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Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
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I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.
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Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because…
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Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
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I foresee a great funeral contest over me.
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Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
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But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
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I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
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In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.
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There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well;
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I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
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On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!
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My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.
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God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.
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