“Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.”

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

My whole life has been a hallow waste, a futile exercise, for no one at death can take anything with them!

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

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

My treasure lies in my friends .

There are no more worlds to conquer

Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

A king does not kill messengers.

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

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

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.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing 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.