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| If you are ambitious, your ambitions are not more than a pebble against the Everest, when you compare your ambitions with his ambitions. No matter how powerful you think you are, it is tiny compared to the power he owned. I am talking of Alexander the Great, he needs no introduction.
Once it happened that Alexander was maneuvering his troops to conquer the East. As he left his city and moved through the forest, he saw Diogenus, who was a friend of his master Aristotle. Alexander annoyed at the site of Diogenus, because this man who was naked and laid stretching his limbs on the riverbank did not even noticed the presence of Alexander and his troops. The king approached him and a dialogue took place between the. |
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| Alexander: What are you doing here naked old man, doing nothing and wasting your time?
Diogenus: What are you doing?
Alexander: I am maneuvering my troops towards the East.
Diogenus: So what are you going to do by this maneuver?
Alexander: I will reach and conquer Persia.
Diogenus: Then?
Alexander: Then I will go to the Afghan region and conquer it.
Diogenus: Then?
Alexander: Oh come on, I wont be satisfied with that much, I have heard about the prosperity of India, so I will conquer India.
Diogenus: Then?
Alexander: you seem to be a stupid man. Don’t you even understand that eventually I will conquer the whole world.
Diogenus: Then?
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