A Life That Is Not the Life of a Card-Carrying Philosopher

Plutarch's ethical works are intended to help you take philosophical perspective on your life without undermining aristocratic values. Alexander the Great was a great moral exemplar of his own kind, an instructive, more exemplar. He's not somebody who I can straight-forward following in the footsteps of but if you think hard about his life and compare him with Julius Caesar, then there are all sorts of useful lessons that you can learn'