"My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay."
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"The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered."
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"There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one."
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"On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!"
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"There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well."
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"I do not steal victory."
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"Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal."
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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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"Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters."
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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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"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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"We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war"
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"A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient."
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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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"Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?"
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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 consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give."
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"There are no more worlds to conquer!"
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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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"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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