Alexander the Great Quote

Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?


As quoted in Lives by Plutarch, VII, "Demosthenes and Cicero. Alexander and Caesar" (40.2), as translated by Bernadotte Perrin.


Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?

Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?

Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?

Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?