Top 51 Quotes About Sparta
#1. The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man according to his mad and injudicious ideas: hardly any, except the polities of Sparta and of Crete, have entrusted the education of children to their laws.
Michel De Montaigne
#2. Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which relies on foreign arms brought to yield obedience to a single citizen. Rome and Sparta remained for ages armed and free. The Swiss are at once the best armed and the freest people in the world.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#3. This is blasphemy!" Odalon declared in the same way Gerard Butler had once roared "This is Sparta." Sadly, Odalon had nobody to kick into a bottomless hole for emphasis, so he settled for looking extremely put out.
Ilona Andrews
#4. 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
#5. I feel sorry for Sparta when you're queen. What are you going to do? Tell your husband and the rest of the court that they can wrap your beauty around them to keep warm and well all winter?
Esther M. Friesner
#6. What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
Thucydides
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
Thomas Day
#10. 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
#11. The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches ...
Euripides
#12. In Sparta , paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so brought to the Comitium to adorn the aedileship of [C. Visellius] Varro and [C. Licinius] Murena.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#13. Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, 'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.
Diogenes
#14. Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact - and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#15. "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."
Janet Morris
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.
John Locke
#19. I make honorable things pleasant to children. A teacher from Sparta
David Brooks
#20. 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
#21. Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the samurai . . . worshipped strength. Because it is strength that makes all other values possible.
Timothy Ferriss
#22. 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
#23. A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."
Plutarch
#24. 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
#25. The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
Thucydides
#26. Respect your captor, Caecelia. Learn to love your position, Caecelia. Pledge loyalty to Sparta, Caecelia. All hail Queen Caecelia of Sparta!
Sai Marie Johnson
#30. A fiery little cat you are, Caecelia. Like a lioness in heat, oh how you bloom.
Sai Marie Johnson
#31. Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!
Sai Marie Johnson
#32. If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men - and cowards.
Erwin Schrodinger
#33. What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Chilon Of Sparta
#37. If you want to know the one thing that will allow you to grow faster than anything else, it is the belief that you may be wrong about absolutely everything you believe. When you can question your beliefs at every possible turn, your opportunities for growth expand exponentially.
Kelle Sparta
#38. If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.
Chilon Of Sparta
#39. Perhaps Zeus was king, but I was Spartan, a princess twice over, and queen of Athens besides. I knew my duty. And I would rule my own fate.
Amalia Carosella
#41. Stay with me?" His fingers wound into my hair, and his arm tightened around me. "Always.
Amalia Carosella
#42. Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
Chilon Of Sparta
#43. That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.
Lycurgus Of Sparta
#45. Oh, my precious princess you are meant for cherishing, and ravishing like the jewel you are.
Sai Marie Johnson
#46. If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.
Chilon Of Sparta
#47. A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one.
Lycurgus Of Sparta
#48. A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.
Chilon Of Sparta
#51. Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.
Tyrtaeus
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