A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.
Steven PressfieldTags: humor alexander-the-great
Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led an army,
I am a wanderer. I cradle
'The Odyssey' nights while the
moon is waning, as if it were
the sweet body of a woman.
Tags: women travel alexander-the-great sleeping the-iliad wandering payne the-odyssey
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
Roman PayneTags: women sleep dreams heroism classics alexander-the-great greek homer roman the-iliad the-odyssey waning-moon
They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.
Roman PayneTags: women sleep dreams heroism alexander-the-great army the-iliad wandering traveling the-odyssey waning-moon wayfaring
As king, your desires must be stronger than any other. You must be more magnificent, more easily angered than everyone else! He should be both pure and chaotic, a man who was more real than any other man. Only through this could your subjects be impressed by their king, and only through this would the message ‘if I was king, such would be my wonder’ be imprinted upon their hearts.
武内 崇Tags: inspirational alexander-the-great banquet-speech
It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!
Rick YanceyTags: humor history alexander-the-great monster-snot monstrumology
Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
Dejan StojanovicTags: imagination reality literature alexander-the-great real don-quixote imaginary
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
[Alexander's tombstone epitaph]
Tags: world death epitaph alexander-the-great enough tomb alexander
One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
Mary RenaultTags: alexander-the-great mary-renault the-persian-boy
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