The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives Quotes.

1. "Such contentedness and change of view in regard to every kind of life does the infusion of reason bring about. When Alexander heard from Anaxarchus of the infinite number of worlds, he wept, and when his friends asked him what was the matter, he replied, "Is it not a matter for tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, I have not conquered one?"
- Plutarch, The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives

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