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Alexander the Great

Born: January 01, 1970

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Leader

Biography: Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of Macedon, a state in northern ancient Greece. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle until the age of 16. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas.

Alexander the Great

“Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.”

- Alexander the Great

Source/Notes: In rejecting peace offer from Darius before the battle of Gaugamela

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Alexander the Great

“How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.”

- Alexander the Great

Source/Notes: Attributed

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Alexander the Great

“I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.”

- Alexander the Great

Source/Notes: Supposed remarked on the day of his death

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Alexander the Great

“I am dying with the help of too many physicians.”

- Alexander the Great

Source/Notes: Supposed remarked on the day of his death

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Alexander the Great

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”

- Alexander the Great

Source/Notes: Referring to Aristotle

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Alexander the Great

“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.”

- Alexander the Great

Source/Notes: Quoted by Plutarch in Life of Alexander from Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden (1683)

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Alexander the Great

“I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.”

- Alexander the Great

Source/Notes: Quoted by Plutarch in Life of Alexander from Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden (1683)

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Alexander the Great

“Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”

- Alexander the Great

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Alexander the Great

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

- Alexander the Great

Source/Notes: As quoted in: A Book of Inspiration (1896) by Orison Swett Marden, p. 55

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Alexander the Great

“What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him!... I could manage this horse better than others do.”

- Alexander the Great

Source/Notes: Statement upon seeing Bucephalas being led away as useless and beyond training, as quoted in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by Arthur Hugh Clough

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