Alexander the Great Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Alexander the Great:

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Alexander the Great

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

Alexander the Great

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Alexander the Great

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Alexander the Great

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander the Great

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Alexander the Great

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

Alexander the Great

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Alexander the Great

I do not pilfer victory.

Alexander the Great

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Alexander the Great

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Alexander the Great

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Alexander the Great

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Alexander the Great

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

Alexander the Great