For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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Quoted by Plutarch in Life of Alexander from Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden (1683)Alexander the Great
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Alexander, Cecil Frances
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