“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.”

“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!”

“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”

“Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor”