“There are no more worlds to conquer!”

Statement portrayed as a quotation in a 1927 Reader&#x27;s Digest article, this probably derives from traditions about Alexander lamenting at his father Philip&#x27;s victories that there would be no conquests left for him, or that after his conquests in Egypt and Asia there were no worlds left to conquer. <br class="br">Some of the oldest accounts of this, as quoted by John Calvin state that on &quot;hearing that there were other worlds, wept that he had not yet conquered one.&quot; <br class="br">This may originate from Plutarch&#x27;s essay On the Tranquility of Mind, part of the essays Moralia: Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, &quot;Is it not worthy of tears,&quot; he said, &quot;that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?&quot; <br class="br">There are no more other worlds to conquer! <br class="br">Variant attributed as his &quot;last words&quot; at a few sites on the internet, but in no published sources. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_tranquillitate_animi*.html