May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

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

My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.

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.

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

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.