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 is nothing impossible to him who will try.
God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
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?