"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."
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Source: Historia Alexandri Magni. Pseudo-Kallisthenes,
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