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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. Wystan Hugh Auden		Wednesday Jan 28, 2026
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About Alexander III 'the Great'

	Alexander III 'the Great'
	(356 BC-323 BC) Of Mecedon - the King -336 -323 -Plutarch, Apothegms.

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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?

I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.

I will not steal a victory. The end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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