Alexander the Great Quotes

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius’ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

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

Every light is not the sun.

I do not pilfer victory.

God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

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?

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

In the end, when it’s over, all that matters is what you’ve done.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.