Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war