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

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

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

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.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.