Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.
With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish.
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
Every light is not the sun.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
I do not steal victory.
God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.
On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!
But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.
We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
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 had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.