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

—  Alexander the Great

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

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