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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?

  Alexander the Great

  Army, Perfection, Victory

  "Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.

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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 see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

  Alexander the Great

  Kings, Army, Punishment

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• Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

  Alexander the Great

  Sex, Sleep, Army

  "Alexander the Great". Book by Robin Lane Fox, 1973.

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• As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

  Alexander the Great

  Men, Noble, Limits

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• I do not steal victory.

  Alexander the Great

  Army, Victory, Stealing

  "A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great". Book by John Bagnell Bury, 1900.

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• Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?

  Alexander the Great

  World, Might, Conquer

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• I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

  Alexander the Great

  Funny, Death, Health

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• My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.

  Alexander the Great

  Campaigns, Logistics, Firsts

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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 people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.

  Alexander the Great

  Brother, Fighting, Fate

  "Historiae Alexandri Magni (Histories of Alexander the Great)". Book by Quintus Curtius Rufus, 2005.

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• I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

  Alexander the Great

  Son, Land, Feet

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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 have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

  Alexander the Great

  Army, Leader, Greek

  "Anabasis of Alexander" by Arrian of Nicomedia, translated by P. A. Brunt. Books I-IV,

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• I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.

  Alexander the Great

  Victory, May, Taste

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• We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

  Alexander the Great

  War, School, Past

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• There are no more worlds to conquer!

  Alexander the Great

  Army, World, Conquer

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• I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.

  Alexander the Great

  Army, Giving, Should

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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 of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

  Alexander the Great

  Lying, Army, Virtue

  "The age of Alexander: nine Greek lives". Book by Plutarch, 1973.

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• Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?

  Alexander the Great

  Thinking, World, Matter

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• I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

  Alexander the Great

  Funeral, Last Words, Contests

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• At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

  Alexander the Great

  Youth, Achilles, Glory

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• How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

  Alexander the Great

  Winning, Names, Athens

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• O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

  Alexander the Great

  Toil, Pleasure, Please

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922)". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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