"The rivalry and wars of Greeks and Persians ... were the first act of a drama that has continued." It's well-known that a person dislikes another who is most similar to him/her. The same concept applies to Persia and Greece; both empires were so similar they had to disagree on something. They shared very similar cultural traits and religious outlooks on life, as well as sharing the same language origins stemming from the first Indo-European family. Persia wanted to show how disobedience would be treated, and that resulted in its multiple wars against Greece, nevertheless Greece continued to thrive, and so did Persia.
Personally, I think Persians were just not interested in going after Greece in the end because they had enough. Why go after something similar to yours when you have the same exact thing right in front of you, you know? If they did fight, it was for purposes of expansion and power, but not really for anything other than that.
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