Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

Addressing to a fallen statue of Xerxes the Great

Plutarch. The age of Alexander: nine Greek lives. Penguin, 1977. p. 294

Alexander the Great Quotes

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity...

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity...

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity...

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity...