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1. :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶 (adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 14:18:27 JST :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶

   Great Alexander wept, and made sad mone, because there was but one world to be wonne.

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   • :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶 (adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 14:38:46 JST :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶

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     • FrailLeaf

     @FrailLeaf@ryona.agency If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos...Alexander the Great according to Plutarch basically saying that he would have otherwise preferred the life of Diogenes in another life had he not been tasked with his destiny as Alexander the Great.
     
     While others envy Alexander the Great, in some respects, Alexander the Great envied the simple existence of Diogenes who lived in a simple tub.

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   • FrailLeaf (frailleaf@ryona.agency)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 14:38:47 JST FrailLeaf

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     @adiz ok what does that mean
   • :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶 (adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 14:38:48 JST :verified_2:防空識別區𝒔𝒐𝒄𝟶

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     • FrailLeaf

     @FrailLeaf@ryona.agency If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.

   • FrailLeaf (frailleaf@ryona.agency)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 14:38:49 JST FrailLeaf

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     @adiz wow what a egocentric guy