- Leader | 356 BC - 323 BC
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great
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I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
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My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
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Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
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So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.
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How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.
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For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
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Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
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His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.
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If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.
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