I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

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.

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

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

I do not steal victory.

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