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.

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.

God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.

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

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?