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

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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

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

Every light is not the sun.

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