“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”

—  Alexander the Great

As quoted in Alexander the Great (1973) by Robin Lane Fox
Unsourced variant : Only sex and sleep make me conscious that I am mortal.

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King of Macedon -356–-323 BC

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