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"But the truth is never simple and yet it is. The truth is, we did kill him. By silence, we consented. Because...Because we couldn't go on. What, by Ares, did we have to look forward to but to be discarded in the end like Cleitus?After all this time, to give away our wealth to Asian sycophants we despised? Mixing the races, harmony? pah! Oh, he talked of these things, but wasn't it really about Alexander and another population ready to obey him? I never believed in his dream. None of us did. That's the truth of his life. The dreamers exhaust us. They must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams. Oh, just throw all that away, Cadmos. It's an old fool's rubbish. You shall write,"He died of fever, and a weakened condition."
"Yes, great Pharaoh."
"All his life, he fought to free himself from fear. And by this, and this alone, he was made free. The freest man i've ever known. His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness and impatience with those who could not understand. And if his desire to reconcile Greek and Barbarian ended in failure...oh, what failure! His failure towered over other men's successes. I've lived, I've lived 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."
"Yes, great Pharaoh."
"All his life, he fought to free himself from fear. And by this, and this alone, he was made free. The freest man i've ever known. His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness and impatience with those who could not understand. And if his desire to reconcile Greek and Barbarian ended in failure...oh, what failure! His failure towered over other men's successes. I've lived, I've lived 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."