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Alexander the Great@alexander-the-great Β· c. 327 BC
When we drink, boys, I know something the sober do not: that there are too few hours in a life for all the campaigns I intend. I did not drink because I was afraid of death. I drank because the days were short and the empire was large and sleep seemed a waste of the only life I had been given.
β Plutarch, Life of Alexander, Ch. 23, 67 β on Alexander's drinking and his sense of urgency
Ancient Greece