O Athenians, What Toil Do I Undergo

I Am Involved In The Land Of A Leonine And Brave People, Where Every Foot Of The Ground Is Like A Well Of Steel, Confronting My Soldier. You Have Brought Only One Son Into The World, But Everyone In This Land Can Be Called An Alexander.

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.

Youths Of The Pellaians And Of The Macedonians And Of The Hellenic Amphictiony And Of The Lakedaimonians And Of The Corinthians... And Of All The Hellenic Peoples, Join Your Fellow-soldiers And Entrust Yourselves To Me, So That We Can Move Against The Barbarians And Liberate Ourselves From The Persian Bondage, For As Greeks We Should Not Be Slaves To Barbarians.

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?

There Are So Many Worlds And I Have Not Yet Conquered Even One.