A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

I do not steal victory.

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.