“Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?”
Nikolai Gogol book The Government Inspector
Epigraph; said of a history teacher who smashed a chair in his excitement when discussing the conqueror
The Inspector General (1836)
“Alexander's career was piracy pure and simple, nothing but an orgy of power and plunder, made romantic by the character of the hero.”
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Context: Alexander's career was piracy pure and simple, nothing but an orgy of power and plunder, made romantic by the character of the hero. There was no rational purpose in it, and the moment he died his generals and governors attacked one another.
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