Alexander the Great Quotes
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The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
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In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.
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Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
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True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.
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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.
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With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish.
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May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
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I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
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If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.
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Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
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What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! … I could manage this horse better than others do.
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To the strongest!
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I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.
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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
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Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?
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For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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So would I, if I were Parmenion.
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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.
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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.
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I do not steal victory.
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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?
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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.
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God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.