Alexander said, "I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion."


Life of Alexander - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Plutarch Quotes

Alexander said, I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Alexander said, I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Alexander said, I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Alexander said, I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.