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

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

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.

But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

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

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