Alexander

— You still hold you head cocked like that.
— I have to stop that.
— No, like a dear listening in the wind you strike me still, Alexander. You have eyes like no other. I sound as stupid as a school boy, but you're everything I care for. And by the sweet breath of Aphrodite I'm so jealous of losing you to this world you want so badly.

— My poor child. You're like Achilles; cursed by your greatness. You must never confuse your feelings with your duties, Alexander. A king must make public gestures for the common people. You will be nineteen this summer, and the girls already say you don't like them, you like Hephastion more. I understand, it's natural for a young man. But if you go to Asia without leaving a successor you risk all
— Hephastion loves me. As I am. Not who.

I found it in Egypt... the man who sold it to me said it came from a time when man worshiped sun, and stars. I'll always think of you as the sun, Alexander. And I pray your dream will shine on all men.

Conquer your fear, and I promise you, you will conquer death.

When men lie together in lust, it is a surrender to the passions... and does nothing for the excellence in us. Nor does any other excess, Cassander, jealousy among them. But when men lie together... and knowledge and virtue are passed between them... that is pure and excellent. When they compete to bring out the good, the best in each other... this is the love between men that can build a city-state... and lift us from our frog pond.

You and I together, one last time Bucephalus. Isn't it a lovely thing to live with great courage and to die leaving an everlasting fame? Come, Macedonians, why do you retreat? Do you want to live forever?
In the name of Zeus, attack!

It's never easy to escape our mothers, Alexander. All your life, beware of women. They're far more dangerous than men.

Come on, Alexander. <...> Who will respect you as a king? You think because of your father? The first rule of war is to do what you ask your men to do. No more, no less.