"But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."

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Source : In Plutarch 'Parallel Lives' 'Alexander' ch. 14, sect. 3

Alexander the Great

#Would Be Quotes

“I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.”
“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.”
“I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.”
“Give me Your eyes for just one second, Give me Your eyes so I can see, Everything that I keep missing, Give me Your love for humanity, Give me Your arms for the broken-hearted, The ones that are far beyond my reach, Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten, Give me Your eyes so I can see”

Source : Song: Give Me Your Eyes, Album: What If We, 2008
“Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.”
“In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.”
“Use minds to solve problems, not lies and bullets.”
“What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.”

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