I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

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.