QUOTES by Alexander The Great
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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."
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"When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back."
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"An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep."
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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?"
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"At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!"
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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?"
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"We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war"
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"I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give."
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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."
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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 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"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." standing, on ours more will fight!"
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"A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough. [Alexander's tombstone epitaph]"
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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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"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."
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"There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well;"
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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."
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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."
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"The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered."
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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 Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians."
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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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"Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies."
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"I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity."
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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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"Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them."
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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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"Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied."
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