Epaminondas Quotes

#1. Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Plutarch

#2. Epaminondas himself fell in the moment of victory, and in his death contributed not the least of his lessons to subsequent generations-by an exceptionally dramatic and convincing proof that an army and a state succumb quickest to paralysis of the brain.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#3. Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

Plutarch

#4. It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#5. Travel is sold as freedom, but we were about as free as lab rats. This is how they'll manage the next Holocaust, I thought, as I shuffled forward in my stockinged feet: they'll simply issue us with air tickets and we'll do whatever we're told

Robert Harris

#6. Curiosity is often mistaken as Love,
Since they both have the common elements of
Interest and Passion

Drishti Bablani

#7. There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

Oliver North

#8. Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. When you were in least of need, people or objects turned up but when you were in a fraught situation, you would never find them.

Deepika Kumaaraguru

#10. I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

Tori Amos

#11. All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Joaquin Miller

#12. A man who is depleted by worry is he who natural immunity is reduced

Sunday Adelaja

#13. If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population.

N. Scott Momaday