Alexander the Great Quotes

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• There are no more worlds to conquer!
• 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…
• I do not steal victory.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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?
• I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.
• 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…
• Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
• I foresee a great funeral contest over me.
• Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
• But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
• I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
• In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.
• There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well;
• I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
• On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!
• My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.
• God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.

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