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Tag Name "Sparta" (16)

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Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.
Adolf Hitler
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Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, Pray, said Lycurgus, do you first set up a democracy in your own house.
Plutarch
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Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. We are the only women who raise men, the Spartan lady replied.
Plutarch
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
Rita Mae Brown
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The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
Thucydides
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We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.
Dennis Kucinich
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The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.
Euripides
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it.
Plutarch
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I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!” That’s true,” Paul said. “I used to teach ancient history.” Poseidon’s eyes twinkled. “That’s me. Ancient history.
Rick Riordan
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Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look like Ronald McDonald. (Ben)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie [300], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.
Zack Snyder
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For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!
Bettany Hughes
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Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
Diogenes
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Only Spartan women give birth to real men.
Gorgo, Queen of Sparta
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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
Niccolo Machiavelli