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?

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

I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.

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?

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

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