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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?

— 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.

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

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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