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Young Cassander: Would you say that the love between Achilles and Patroclus is a corrupting one?
Aristotle: When men lie together in lust, it is a surrender to the passions... and does nothing for the excellence in us. Nor does any other excess, Cassander... jealousy among them.
But when men lie together, and knowledge and virtue are passed between them that is pure and excellent. When they compete to bring out the good, the best in each other this is the love between men that can build a city-state and lift us from our frog pond.
Young Hephaistion: But can a man love a woman equally, master?
Aristotle: A woman? Of course not. A woman is a slave to her passion, Hephaistion.
Olympias: My poor child. You're like Achilles; cursed by your greatness.
You must never confuse your feelings with your duties, Alexander. A king must make public gestures for the common people. You will be nineteen this summer, and the girls already say you don't like them, you like Hephastion more. I understand, it's natural for a young man. But if you go to Asia without leaving a successor you risk all.
Alexander: Hephastion loves me. As I am. Not who.
