If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
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What great or glorious deed could we have performed if we had sat at ease in Macedonia?
Alexander the Great, 356–323 BC -
Alexander the Great, 356–323 BC -
From my father I received life, and from my teacher I learned how to live well.
Alexander the Great, 356–323 BC 
Heraclitus, 535–475 BC 
He who slays a king and he who dies for him are alike idolaters.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856–1950 
Vladislav Petković Dis, 1880–1917