What great or glorious deed could we have performed if we had sat at ease in Macedonia?

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  Is it not worthy of tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, I have not yet become lord of a single one?

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  If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

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  From my father I received life, and from my teacher I learned how to live well.

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  Every generation, no doubt, believes itself called to remake the world. Mine knows that it will not remake it.

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  But for the hero of Topola, Karađorđe the immortal, every obstacle stood in the way, yet he reached the great goal: he raised the people, baptised the land and broke the barbarian chains, called the Serbs back from the dead and breathed life into the Serbian soul.

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  Heroism is the emperor over every evil, and the sweetest drink of the soul, on which whole generations grow drunk.

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