A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

~ Steven Pressfield

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Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

~ Roman Payne

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They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

~ Roman Payne

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The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

~ Roman Payne

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Don Quixote is not an imaginary person, he is as real as Alexander the Great.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

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Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

~ Mary Renault

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In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that neither strength of body, nor noble blood, nor success in war even greater than Alexander's own... that none of these things, I say, can make a man happy, unless he can win one more victory in addition to those the world thinks so great---the victory over himself.

~ Arrian

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He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.

~ Mary Renault

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We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago.

~ Jake Wood

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