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.

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.

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

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

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

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.