"I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion."

“Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”

“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.”

“Dinocrates, I appreciate your design as excellent in composition, and I am delighted with it, but I apprehend that anybody who should found a city in that spot would be censured for bad judgement. For as a newborn babe cannot be nourished without the nurse's milk, nor conducted to the approaches that lead to growth in life, so a city cannot thrive without fields and the fruits thereof pouring into its walls.”

“Wiki Classical Dictionary, extant sources and fragmentary and lost sources”

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.”