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.

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.

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.

There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.

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?

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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