Alexander the Great Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”
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“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”
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“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
-- Alexander the GreatSource : "Pushing to the Front, or, Success under Difficulties: A Book of Inspiration". Book by Orison Swett Marden (p. 55), 1896.
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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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“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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“May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.”
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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.”
-- Alexander the GreatSource : "Life of Alexander" by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden, 1895.
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“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.”
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“There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.”
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“I am dying with the help of too many physicians.”
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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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“There are no more worlds to conquer!”
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“I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.”
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“Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.”
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“How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.”
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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 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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“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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“In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.”
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“But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.”
-- Alexander the GreatSource : In Plutarch 'Parallel Lives' 'Alexander' ch. 14, sect. 3
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“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”
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“I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.”
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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.”
-- Alexander the GreatSource : "Historia Alexandri Magni". Pseudo-Kallisthenes,
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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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“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 GreatSource : "Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.
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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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“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.”
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“I foresee a great funeral contest over me.”
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“O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!”
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