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Alexander the Great conquered almost all of the known world of his time. There is virtually no other ruler of the ancient or modern world who can make this claim. By the time of his death, Alexander ruled a domain that encompassed the
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“The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).”
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“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes.”
― No Longer Human
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes.”
― No Longer Human
“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and you call that a crime?”
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“We can never truly see into the hearts of others. When people get lost in their own worries, they can be blind to the feelings of those most important to them.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Tales from the Café / Before Your Memory Fades
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Tales from the Café / Before Your Memory Fades
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