Alexander the Great was antiquity\'s greatest commander

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

...On the one hand, the friend who is familiar
with every fact of the story may think that some point has not been set forth with that
fullness which he wishes and knows it to deserve; on the other, he who is a stranger to
the matter may be led by envy to suspect exaggeration if he hears anything above his
own nature. For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can
severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted:
when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity... [Pericles, Epitaphios]