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The generals question your obsession with Darius.
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They say it was never meant for you to be King of Asia.
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Naturally. They want only to return
to their homes, rich with gold.
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But I've seen the future, Hephaistion!
I've seen it now a thousand times, on a thousand faces.
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These people want, need change.
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Aristotle was wrong about them.
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How so?
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Look at those we have conquered. They leave their dead unburied,
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They smash their enemies skulls and drink
from it's dust, they mate in public,
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What can they think, or sing or write, when none can read?
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But as Alexander's army they can go
where they never thought possible!
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They can soldier, work in the cities,
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the Alexandrias, from Egypt to the outer ocean.
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We can connect these lands, Hephaistion! And the people,
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Some say these Alexandrias have become
extensions of Alexander himself,
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They draw people into the cities so as to make slaves.
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But we've freed them, Hephaistion, from
the Persia where everyone lived as slaves!
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To free the people of the world,
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..such would be beyond the glory of Achilles.
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Beyond Heracles! A feat to rival Prometheus,
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..who was always a friend to man.
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Remember the fates of these heroes. They suffered greatly.
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Oh we all suffer. Your father, mine.
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They all came to the end of their time,
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..and in the end, when it's over, all that
matters is what you've done.
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You once said the fear of death drives all men,
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Are there no other forces?
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Is there not love in your life?
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Alexander?