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?

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.

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

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

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

I do not steal victory.

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