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.

May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

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

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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