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

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

“I do not pilfer victory.”

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

“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.”

“My endeavorsHave ever come too short of my desires.Yet filed with my abilities.”

“I have thrust myself into this maze,Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.”

“Ambition's debt is paid.”