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Learning that Alexander complained against him because he was having children by other women besides his wife, he said, ‘Well then, if you have many competitors for the kingdom, prove yourself honourable and good, so that you may obtain the kingdom not because of me, but because of yourself.’ He bade Alexander give heed to Aristotle, and study philosophy, ‘so that,’ as he said, ‘you may not do a great many things of the sort that I am sorry to have done.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Alexander, chap. ix. (669 A).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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