Alexander the Great Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Alejandro Magno

  Men, Noble, Limits

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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?

  Alejandro Magno

  Army, Perfection, Victory

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

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• Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?

  Alejandro Magno

  World, Might, Conquer

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

  Alejandro Magno

  Sex, Sleep, Army

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

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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.

  Alejandro Magno

  Kings, Army, Punishment

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• I do not steal victory.

  Alejandro Magno

  Army, Victory, Stealing

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

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

  Alejandro Magno

  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.

  Alejandro Magno

  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.

  Alejandro Magno

  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.

  Alejandro Magno

  Son, Land, Feet

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• Vuestros antepasados llegaron a Macedonia y al resto de Hellas [Grecia] y nos causaron un gran daño, aunque nosotros no les habíamos hecho ningún daño antes. He sido nombrado jefe de los griegos, y queriendo castigar a los persas he venido a Asia, que os arrebaté.

  Alejandro Magno

  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.

  Alejandro Magno

  Victory, May, Taste

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

  Alejandro Magno

  War, School, Past

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• There are no more worlds to conquer!

  Alejandro Magno

  Army, World, Conquer

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

  Alejandro Magno

  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?

  Alejandro Magno

  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?

  Alejandro Magno

  Thinking, World, Matter

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• I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

  Alejandro Magno

  Funeral, Last Words, Contests

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

  Alejandro Magno

  Youth, Achilles, Glory

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

  Alejandro Magno

  Winning, Names, Athens

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

  Alejandro Magno

  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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