I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

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?

Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?

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.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.