"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."
"Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you."
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Source: Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian of Nicomedia, translated by P. A. Brunt. Books I-IV,
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