True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
It is surely no coincidence that Napoleon's two greatest heroes were Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. In certain respects, he would outdo them both.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.
They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
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