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Alexander The Great identified patterns in Discipline that most people miss. This collection reveals those insights, each quote preserved with full attribution and context. Use it to sharpen your thinking, spot leverage points, and avoid common mistakes. When Discipline gets complicated, return here for the mental clarity Alexander The Great would bring to the situation.
"The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered."
"Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war."
"Conduct yourself so as to become worthy of the empire."
"If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."
"There is nothing left for us to conquer but our own limits."
"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 possession?"
"So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife."
"I have made you masters of all the wealth of the East; do not let it make you soft."
"Do you not see that when you have conquered the world, you will have to fight yourself?"
"Are you not aware that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?"
"Excellence is a habit, but for the king, it must be his nature."
"I am not looking for a place to rest, but a place to conquer my own weaknesses."
"Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal."
"Our enemies have lived soft lives; we have been trained in the hard school of danger."
"Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."
"Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?"
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