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

— Alexander the Great

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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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

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If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.

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?

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.

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