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?

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

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

I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

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

Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?