The author Argent Wood, posted the following to the group:
I tried to reply to this post, but my reply kept getting declined.The following quote is ascribed to Alexander the Great:
"True love never has a happy ending because there is no ending to true love."
Does anyone know the ancient source for this quote?"
It wasn't the 'spurious' that got it declined as I tried it without it. Was it the 'kiss'? 'beloved'? Who knows.This quote is entirely spurious. I suspect it is a corruption of this from Plutarch's Moralia "On another occasion Cassander forced Python, beloved by Evius the flute-player , to kiss him, and Alexander, seeing that Evius was vexed, leapt up in anger against Cassander, exclaiming "It isn't allowable even to fall in love with anybody, because of you and people like you."
Anyway, the point of this post is to warn people off this site https://www.azquotes.com/author/5835-Al ... _the_Great. I don't recognise a single one of those quotes as legitimate. They just appear to be something people think Alexander would have said. Go to the original sources if you want a quote, there are plenty of online copies of translations.
