On Alexnader The Great and his sorrows.

Alexander The Great was, in my opinion, the greatest military mind in history. He excelled Tsun Tzu, who wrote the oldest military treatise. He conquered the entire known world with resources that were by definition not infinite within a time frame that did not exceed his lifetime [Life expectancy back then was 30 years or so.] Our salient memory of him was his lament [he had lament in common with Nietzsche] "And Alexander wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." He could have forfeited his place in history and been quite unremarkable in the successful pursuit of happiness if he had taken another tack. If Alexander had stopped 1/3 of the way through his incredible military campaign, and proceeded to govern benevolently all that he had already seized he would have found endless substantive employ. I respect, possibly even revere Alexander The Great. I idolize Tom Bombadil. Related reading is an ancient Greek fiction by Xenophon called "The Education Of Cyrus." It contains more than it says by being a book of philosophy, but it addresses the Greek idea of what it means to be wealthy.