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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: leaped upon his back, pushed him to a full gallop, and returned safely, Philip cried, " Seek another kingdom, my son, that may be worthy of thy abilities; for Macedonia is too small for thee." ? Life. When Philip stumbled from the effect of passion and wine, at the festival of his second marriage, Alexander exclaimed, " Men of Macedou, what a fine hero the states of Greece have to lead their armies from Europe to Asia he is not able to pass from one table to another without falling " ? Ibid. Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. Because when he came to converse with the cynic philosopher at Corinth, he was so struck w:ith his life and learning that he said, " Had I not been a philosopher in deeds, I would have devoted myself to the study of words." Plutarch: Fortune of Alexander the Great. It was at this interview that Alexander, asking Diogenes what he could do for him, was told, "Only stand a little out of my sunshine." Napoleon, speaking in 1814 of the Macedonian's Russian namesake, said, " If I were not Napoleon, I would be Alexander." When he divided his revenues among his friends, while preparing his Asian campaign, and Perdiccas asked him what he retained for himself, he answered, "Hope." ? "If hope is sufficient for Alexander," replied his general, "it is sufficient for Perdiccas." At the tomb of Achilles, Alexander exclaimed, " O fortunate youth, who found a Homer to proclaim thy valor " which Cicero quotes in the oration for the poet Archias: " 0 fortunate ailoles- cens, qui tuce virtutis Homerum prreconem invcneris " When asked at Ilium if he would like to see the lyre of Paris, he replied, "I would rather see the lyre of Achilles," preferring that to which the warrior had sung the glorious actions of the brave. ? Life. He always travelled with...

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