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

I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.

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.

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

I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.

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

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