Alexander quotes
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May all those who come here after us know when they see this altar, that titans were once here.
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A king isn't born, Alexander, he is made. By steel and by suffering. A king must know how to hurt those he loves. It's lonely. Ask Heracles. Ask any of them. Fate is cruel. No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. They laugh when you rise too high and crush everything you've built with a whim. What glory they give in the end, they take away. They... They make of us slaves.
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There's only one thing better than winning a battle, son, and that's the taste of a new woman! You'll find it far sweeter than self pity.
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Herakles did it by himself. Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? I mean, who planned the Asian invasion while you were being spanked on your bottom by my sister Lanike? Was it not your father? Or is his blood no longer good enough?
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Pay attention lad, your father's still watching over you!
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I don't serve your purpose?! What was I serving when I saved your puppy-life at Gaugamela?! Were you Zeus' boy?! What if I left you to die in the dust there? You think we'd be forced now to mate with brown apes?!!!
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Back, and to the left! ~ Macedonian Soldier
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All men reach and fall...
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Alexander used to say that we are most alone when we are with the myths.
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He was a god, Cadmos, or as close as anything I've ever seen.
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His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness and impatience with those who could not understand. And if his desire to unite Greek and barbarian ended in failure... what failure! His failure towered over other men's successes. I've lived... I've lived a long life, Cadmos. But the glory and the memory of man will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. And the greatest of these is the one they now... call "Megas Alexandros" - the greatest Alexander of them all.
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All you desire in the world is yours! Take it...
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In my womb I carried my avenger!
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You will be nineteen this summer and the girls already say you don't like them, you like Hephaistion more. I understand it is natural for a young man.
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Alexander, the world is yours. Take it!