Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.

There are no more worlds to conquer!

Every light is not the sun.

Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

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?

God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.