There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
Every light is not the sun.
Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.