Although Alexander hated Darius, and everything he had done to Alexander's people, this does not seem like the way he wanted his enemy to go. Darius and Alexander wanted a fight to the finish, prove that they were the King of Kings. With Darius chained, stabbed, and on the brink of death, there was nothing to be proven. What made it worse was the fact that, at the end of his life, Darius was helped by one of the soldiers he had hated and wanted to kill. He saw what was happening to Persia, and told the soldier to tell Alexander good luck and thanked him for treating his family with respect. We see that Darius, like Conan O'Brien, was gracious to those that destroyed him.
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