When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.
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"Hans Gruber" in Die Hard (1988); this is often mistaken as a direct quote from more ancient sources, but this phrasing seems to have originated in this movie.Alexander the Great
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We are not in the situation of poor Alexander the Great, who wept, as well indeed he might, because there were no more worlds to conquer; for, to do justice to this queer, odd, rantipole city, and this whimsical country, there is matter enough in them to keep our risible muscles and our pens going until doomsday.
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Once upon a time, in days of long ago, Alexander the Great complained bitterly that there were no worlds left for him to conquer.
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When he says that in that day all his thoughts perish, or flow away, perhaps under this expression he censures the madness of princes in setting no bounds to their hopes and desires, and scaling the very heavens in their ambition, like the insane Alexander of Macedon, who, upon hearing that there were other worlds, wept that he had not yet conquered one, although soon after the funeral urn sufficed him.
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There are no more worlds to conquer!
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And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.Thomas (writer) Dekker
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