My treasure lies in my friends
There are no more worlds to conquer
But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ..
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Glory crowns the deeds of those who expose themselves to toils and dangers.
For my part, I think that to a man of spirit there is no other aim and end of his labours except the labours themselves.
Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
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.
When you bury my body, don’t build any momentum and keep my hands outside so that the world knows that the person who won the whole world had nothing in his hand while dying.
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.
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.
When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.
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. ..
Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.
