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Ptolemy quotes

View Quote It was said later that Alexander was never defeated, except by Hephaistion's thighs.
View Quote Back, and to the left! ~ Macedonian Soldier
View Quote All men reach and fall...
View Quote Alexander used to say that we are most alone when we are with the myths.
View Quote He was a god, Cadmos, or as close as anything I've ever seen.
View Quote His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness and impatience with those who could not understand. And if his desire to unite Greek and barbarian ended in failure... what failure! His failure towered over other men's successes. I've lived... I've lived a long life, Cadmos. But the glory and the memory of man will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. And the greatest of these is the one they now... call "Megas Alexandros" - the greatest Alexander of them all.
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