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“Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: "Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?"”
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- Source:
- On the Tranquillity of the Mind.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0d788e70338b0cb9d81c83b00571628d6fe06371a68ddc6c0bbc8f8fd252d482
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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