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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?

— Alexander the Great

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Plutarch. The age of Alexander: nine Greek lives. Penguin, 1977. p. 294

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