Mythology mess up

[Nightshade18]

Gents,

I've been searching for a quote, I'm coming up short so I thought perhaps you might be able to help me out?
I think I had mixed Pandora's box and Alexander the great together to make something that doesn't exist, but hopefully I'm mistaken and it does exist.
What I had in my head was something along the lines of: Someone had opened the box and seen something of great beauty, then wept, knowing nothing could ever be the same.

I had to look both stories up and it turns out that Pandora's box was filled with all the evil things in the world, and Alexander was weeping over having nothing left to conquer (forgive me, I'm a child of the 90's. I hear education isn't what it once was )

Any ideas? Is there something along these lines I can quote?

 

[Legion]

I think the quote you are thinking of about ATG was "As Alexander surveyed the length and breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer", or something close to that.

 

[August West]

That is a common misquote. I believe the character Hans Gruber in Die Hard is most responsible. The original quote was written by Plutarch in his work "Contentedness of the Mind".

The actual quote is as follows: " Such contentedness and change of view in regard to every kind of life does the infusion of reason bring about. When Alexander heard from Anaxarchus of the infinite number of worlds, he wept, and when his friends asked him what was the matter, he replied, "Is it not a matter for tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, I have not conquered one? "

Alexander was actually lamenting that he could never conquer the entire world seeing it is infinite and beyond his scope.

That being said: Either quote Hans Gruber or the original quote, whichever expresses your sentiments best.

 

[Doc4]

That is a common misquote. I believe the character Hans Gruber in Die Hard is most responsible. The original quote was written by Plutarch in his work "Contentedness of the Mind".

So ... Alexander The Great didn't say "Yippie-kai-yay ...!!"


Hunh.

Ya learn somethin' every day.

 

[August West]

So ... Alexander The Great didn't say "Yippie-kai-yay ...!!"


Hunh.

Ya learn somethin' every day.

Actually, "Yippie-kay-yay...!" is attributed to Genghis Kahn.
SEE: Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iguldeen

 

[Legion]

That is a common misquote. I believe the character Hans Gruber in Die Hard is most responsible. The original quote was written by Plutarch in his work "Contentedness of the Mind".

The actual quote is as follows: " Such contentedness and change of view in regard to every kind of life does the infusion of reason bring about. When Alexander heard from Anaxarchus of the infinite number of worlds, he wept, and when his friends asked him what was the matter, he replied, "Is it not a matter for tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, I have not conquered one? "

Alexander was actually lamenting that he could never conquer the entire world seeing it is infinite and beyond his scope.

That being said: Either quote Hans Gruber or the original quote, whichever expresses your sentiments best.

Sorry. I have gotten most of my classical literary education from the works of Bruce Willis. I'm not saying that is a bad thing....

 

[August West]

Sorry. I have gotten most of my classical literary education from the works of Bruce Willis. I'm not saying that is a bad thing....

"August West said what?"

 

[Seraphim]

If only Shakespeare had incorporated car chases and explosions into his work, he could have been a hit...

 

[Doc4]

 

[August West]

Those Bobbies always get their conqueror.

 

[Sled_Dog]

If only Shakespeare had incorporated car chases and explosions into his work, he could have been a hit...

Heck, most of Shakespeare's work has been translated to film already.