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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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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True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.
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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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With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish.
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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
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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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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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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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So would I, if I were Parmenion.
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I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.
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Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
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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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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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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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I do not steal victory.
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If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.
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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.
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On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!
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As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.
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Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?
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I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give.