Alexander The Great Quotes
Enjoy the top 54 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Alexander The Great.

“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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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
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“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
[Alexander's tombstone epitaph]”
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Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue. For me every virtuous foreigner is a Greek and every evil Greek worse than a Barbarian. If differences ever develop between you never have recourse to arms, but solve them peacefully. If necessary, I should be your arbitrator.
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“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”
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Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
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“An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”
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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. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service - but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay - and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops - Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes - they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they - Darius!
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“But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.”
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“There are no more worlds to conquer!”
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When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.
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“There is nothing immpossible to him who will try”
— Alexander The Great
“Upon the conduct of each determines the fate of all”
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“My treasure lies in my friends .”
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— Alexander The Great
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
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— Alexander The Great
“I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.”
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“True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.”
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Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
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“I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.”
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“In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.”
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With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish
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May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
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— Alexander The Great
I do not steal victory.
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— Alexander The Great
“God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.”
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“On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!”
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— Alexander The Great
“We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war”
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“Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?”
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“There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.”
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“I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.”
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— Alexander The Great
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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?
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O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
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“I foresee a great funeral contest over me.”
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“At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!”
— Alexander The Great
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