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On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.

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

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?

My treasure lies in my friends .

With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well;

I do not steal victory.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

{His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle}

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 am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

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

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?

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

I foresee a great funeral contest over me.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

Upon the conduct of each determines the fate of all

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

In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.

Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

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

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

Every light is not the sun.

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

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?

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

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

There are no more worlds to conquer!

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
[Alexander's tombstone epitaph]

But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

There is nothing immpossible to him who will try

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

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.