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No Indian ever went outside his own country on a warlike expedition, so righteous were they.

— Arrian Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson (1929)

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This also is remarkable in India, that all Indians are free, and no Indian at all is a slave. In this the Indians agree with the Lacedaemonians. Yet the Lacedaemonians have Helots for slaves, who perform the duties of slaves; but the Indians have no slaves at all, much less is any Indian a slave.

Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson (1929)

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …

They (Indians) are remarkably brave, and superior in war to all Asiatics; they are remarkable for integrity; they are so reasonable as seldom to have recourse to law suits, and so honest as to require neither locks to their doors nor writings to bind their agreements. They are in the highest degree truthful.

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