Spartans Quotes
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“It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
![Yvonne Korshak](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1670540014i/746237._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
![Steven Pressfield](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1298914893i/867._UY200_CR15,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: for the man who stands at your shoulder. He is everything, and everything is contained within him. That is all I know. That is all I can tell you.
--Dienekes at Thermopylae”
― Gates of Fire
--Dienekes at Thermopylae”
― Gates of Fire
![Steven Pressfield](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1298914893i/867._UY200_CR15,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What's the difference between a Spartan king and a mid-ranker? One man will lob this query to his mate as they prepare to bed down in the open in a cold driving rain. His friend considers mock-theatrically for a moment. .'The king sleeps in that shithole over there' he replies. 'We sleep in this shithole over here.”
― Gates of Fire
― Gates of Fire
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“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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“O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here we
Are laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed.
Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
[Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]”
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Are laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed.
Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
[Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]”
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“If you have too much or too little of something in your character, you are often seen as an anomaly - you then have a disorder. The Spartans were diagnosed with too much virtue. Thus, she was hated by all her neighbours.”
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![Karl Popper](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1538933057i/349707._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“How does Plato solve the problem of avoiding class war? Had he been a progressivist, he might have hit on the idea of a classless, equalitarian society; for, as we can see for instance from his own parody of Athenian democracy, there were strong equalitarian tendencies at work in Athens. But he was not out to construct a state that might come, but a state that had been—the father of the Spartan state, which was certainly not a classless society. It was a slave state, and accordingly Plato’s best state is based on the most rigid class distinctions. It is a caste state. The problem of avoiding class war is solved, not by abolishing classes, but by giving the ruling class a superiority which cannot be challenged. As in Sparta, the ruling class alone is permitted to carry arms, it alone has any political or other rights, and it alone receives education, i.e. a specialized training in the art of keeping down its human sheep or its human cattle.”
― The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato
― The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato
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“A small country like Rwanda is not ready for the expansion that its leader seeks, it should follow the wise advice of the Spartans, simply because the more they insist on expansion, the sooner they will end up ruined.”
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![Mwanandeke Kindembo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1642117493i/19703421._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“Hitler is associated with the word evil because he wanted to create a new colony or space in Europe, rather than Africa and Asia.”
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