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.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish

Every light is not the sun.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.