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Alexander the Great Quotes about Army

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Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me,

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

Alexander the Great
Moving, Army, Greek
"Historia Alexandri Magni". Pseudo-Kallisthenes,

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

Alexander the Great
Kings, Army, Punishment

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
Army, Perfection, Victory
"Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.

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

Alexander the Great
Sex, Sleep, Army
"Alexander the Great". Book by Robin Lane Fox, 1973.

I do not steal victory.

Alexander the Great
Army, Victory, Stealing
"A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great". Book by John Bagnell Bury, 1900.

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.

Alexander the Great
Army, Leader, Greek
"Anabasis of Alexander" by Arrian of Nicomedia, translated by P. A. Brunt. Books I-IV,

There are no more worlds to conquer!

Alexander the Great
Army, World, Conquer

I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.

Alexander the Great
Army, Giving, Should

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
Lying, Army, Virtue
"The age of Alexander: nine Greek lives". Book by Plutarch, 1973.

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