I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground … - Alexander the Great

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Alexander the Great

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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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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Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?

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

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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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