"O king, through the country there are royal roads and roads for common citizens, but in geometry there is one road for all."
— Geometry

January 1, 1970

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Menaechmus (c. 350 BC) response to a request of Alexander the Great to be taught concisely, as quoted by Sir Thomas Little Heath, The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements (1908) Vol.1 Introduction and Books I, II p.1, citing Stobaeus, Ecl. (II. p. 228, 30, ed. Wachsmuth)