Alexander the Great — "But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."

But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Alexander the Great — Alexander the Great Ancient · Macedonian conqueror

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When he visited Diogenes the Cynic and asked if he could do anything for him, after Diogenes reportedly asked him to move out of his sunlight.

Date: Approx. 336 BCE

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