"He was a god, Cadmus, or as close as anything I've ever seen. Tyrant, they yell so easily. I laugh; no tyrant ever gave back so much. What do they know of the world, these school boys? It takes strong men to rule. Alexander was more; he was Prometheus, a friend to man. He changed the world."

"Alexander once said to me that we are most alone when we are with the myths."

"All men reach and fall..."

"It was said later that Alexander was never defeated, except by Hephaistion's thighs."

"Hear what I say, guess what, false king!"

"But in his short life he achieved without doubt, the mythic glory of his ancestor Achilles, and more."

"Evil tyrant you are! Evil tyrant you've become Alexander."

"I don't serve your purpose?! What was I serving when I saved your puppy-life at Gaugamela?! Were you Zeus' boy?! What if I left you to die in the dust there? You think we'd be forced now to mate with brown apes?!!!"

"Doesn't your great pride fear the gods any longer."

"What freedom is this to bow before you?"

"Herakles did it by himself. Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? I mean, who planned the Asian invasion while you were being spanked on your bottom by my sister Lanike? Was it not your father? Or is his blood no longer good enough?"

"I'll toast to Bagoas. And the 30,000 beautiful Persian boys were training to fight in this great army. And to memory of Phillip, had he lived to see his Macedonians transformed into such a pretty army."

"Pay attention lad, your father's still watching over you!"

"By Ares chains he's got balls. I mean give the man his due, Parmenion. And lads, feast tonight for tomorrow we will dine in Hades."

"I'll marry the girl if I want and I'll have as many sons as I want and there's nothing you or your harpie mother can do about it!"

"There's only one thing better than winning a battle, son, and that's the taste of a new woman! You'll find it far sweeter than self pity."

"None will tell you this but your father: Men hate the gods! The only reason we worship any of them is because we fear worse. The Titans."

"All greatness comes from loss. Even you the gods will one day judge harshly."

"(enraged at Alexander) Get out of my palace! You're exiled, you bastard! Banished from the land. You're not welcome here! You're no son of mine!"

"All your life, beware of women. They are far more dangerous than men."

"You dream of glory Alexander. Your mother encourages you. But there's no glory without suffering and this she will not allow."

"It was a Iron Age. Blood-feuds. Fathers feared their son's treachery and would eat them."

"A king isn't born, Alexander, he is made. By steel and by suffering. A king must know how to hurt those he loves. It's lonely. Ask Heracles. Ask any of them. Fate is cruel. No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. They laugh when you rise too high and crush everything you've built with a whim. What glory they give in the end, they take away. They... They make of us slaves."

"Ahhh! He's got some Titan in him yet!"

"A broken neck comes free, you fool!"

"(of Bucephalus) Who would want such a beast? I already have a wife!"

"Damn your sorceress soul! Keeping me like one of your snakes! I told you not! I told you not!"

"Cleitus spoke true. I am a tyrant."

"No one, not my vilest enemy, has ever spoken like you to me!"

"My poor, poor, ill-fated son."

"Don't leave me Hephaestion!"

"May all those who come here after us know when they see this altar, that titans were once here."

"Men of Macedon, we're going home."

"Go on your way, father, rejoicing that with every step you may recall your valour."

"Yes, you're right Crateros. I should have sent you veterans home sooner, and I will. The first of your shall be the Silver Shields, and then every man who has served seven years. Respected, rich, LOVED! You'll be treated by you wives and children as heroes for the rest of your lives. And enjoy a peaceful death. But you dream Crateros! Your simplicity long ended when you took Persian mistresses and children and you thickened your holdings with plunder and jewels... Because you have fallen in love with all the things in life that destroy men! Do you not see? And you, as well as I, know, that as the years decline, and the memories stale, and all your great victories fade, it will always be remembered, you left your king in Asia! Because I will go on...with my Asians!"

"You know there’s not a part of me without a scar or a bone broken by sword, knife, stone, catapult, and club. I’ve shared every hardship with all of you."

"You break my heart, you men... afraid!? Of course you have fears, we all have fears. Because no one has ever come this far before."

"Hephaestion loves me as I am, not "who"."

"What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment, but your contempt for a world far older than ours."

"Aristotle be damned! By Zeus and by all the gods, what makes you so much better than them, Cassander! Better than you really are! In you and those like you is this."

"Each land, each boundary I cross, I strip away another illusion. I sense death will be the last. Yet still I push, harder and harder to reach this..."home." Where has our eagle gone? We must go on Ptolemy, until we find an end."

"Were we gods we'd breach these walls to the Eastern Ocean."

"It is you that I love Hephaestion, no other."

"When I was a child my mother thought me divine and my father weak... which one am I Hephaistion? Weak or divine?"

"In the end, all that matters is what you've done."

"Stay with me tonight, Hephaestion."

"I promise that I will beat you one day, Hephaistion."

"It's a high ransom she charges for nine months lodging in the womb."

"I've taken you farther than my father ever dreamed!"

"I am not my father!"