Alexander the Great

'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 had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.'


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



'There is nothing impossible to him who will try.'


'I will not steal a victory. The end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue.'



'Is it not worthy of tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?'


'If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos…'


 'Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.'