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  1. Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been…
  2. Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas (Greece) and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have bee…
  3. If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic (Greek), to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out…
  4. Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians: and of all…
  5. If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.
  6. Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference betw…
  7. Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brothe…
  8. 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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