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.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

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

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.