"Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?"

"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."

"I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give."

"We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war"

"I am dying with the help of too many physicians."

"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?"

"I foresee a great funeral contest over me."

"At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!"

"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?"

"O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!"

"Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal."

"Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

"An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep."

"There is nothing immpossible to him who will try"

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

"There are no more worlds to conquer!"

"Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

"Upon the conduct of each determines the fate of all"

"When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back."

"My treasure lies in my friends ."

", “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."

"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope"

"Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures."

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."

"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."

"It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live."

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope."

"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."

"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."

"The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates."

"For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence."

"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."

"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy"

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."

"There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever."

"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."

"We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune."

"Women are never so strong as after their defeat."

"Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,"

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it."

"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."

"Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself"."

"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."

"True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it."

"For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God."

"You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart."

"Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it."