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

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

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?

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

Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

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