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Excerpt from Quintus Curtius Rufus, Book VII, (Chaps. IX-XIV)
Of the personal influences which affected his early wears these three were the most potent. No one )f course can undertake at this distance of time to give any detailed account of what it was that Alexander learnt from Aristotle; but the fact that he greatest man of action in the ancient world was he pupil of its greatest thinker will always remain me of the most suggestive coincidences in History.
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