He suffered a long illness, and when he had recovered his strength he said, ‘'Twas nothing so very bad; for the illness has reminded us not to feel too proud, since we are but mortal’ 1
1 Attributed to Alexander by Stobaeus, Florilegium, xxi. 15.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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