Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

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

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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?

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

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?

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.