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?

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

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

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

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

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

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.