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1. Those metals, when the Spartans had got wherewithal to purchase them, broke through all the barriers which the laws of Lycurgus opposed to their entrance into Lacedaemon
2. And this is to say nothing of Leonidas and his three hundred Spartans at Thermopylae
3. In the realm of possible alternate histories, it gives one pause to reflect on the fact that a certain Athenian hoplite was one of the few survivors of a pitched battle lost to the Spartans and Thebans during the early years of the Peloponnesian War
4. bravery of the Spartans under Leonidas, Xerxes was defeated at the land and naval battle of Salamis in 480 BC
5. As for my sense of strategy, I once wielded the might of an empire, while in another life I and 300 other Spartans made the ultimate sacrifice at the battle of Thermopylae, in order to save the rest of Greece from the Persians
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7. The Spartans held Alexander in derision
8. The Spartans, were natives of the ancient Greek city state Sparta in the southern Peloponnese, were famous for their toughness in enduring pain and hardship
9. If we had a warrior culture, if we raised our children to be spartans or beserkers, then warring would be the skill we would want to inculcate, and pillaging and raping would be the rewards for a campaign won
10. The Spartans became so impoverished when there was no war: that they began hiring themselves out to rich trading Polis’… just to make ends meet
11. What kind of sick monsters did they create from these kinds of unions? Read the history of the Spartans
12. Of all Hellenes the Spartans were most accessible to bribery; several of the greatest of them might be described in the words of Plato as having a 'fierce secret longing after gold and silver
13. The Spartans, though an unpoetical race, were nevertheless lovers of poetry; they had been stirred by the Elegiac strains of Tyrtaeus, they had crowded around Hippias to hear his recitals of Homer; but in this they resembled the citizens of the timocratic rather than of the ideal State
14. The (Greek) of the Spartans attracted them, that is to say, not the goodness of their laws, but the spirit of order and loyalty which prevailed
15. Even supposing that we could breed men having the tenacity of bulldogs, or, like the Spartans, 'lacking the wit to run away in battle,' would the world be any the better? Many of the noblest specimens of the human race have been among the weakest physically
16. He did not consider that the desire of a noble offspring was a passion among the Spartans, or that their physical superiority was to be attributed chiefly, not to their marriage customs, but to their temperance and training
17. The genius, the political inspiration of Athens, the love of liberty--all that has made Greece famous with posterity, were wanting among the Spartans
18. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq
19. We are few in number, we have a whole army arrayed against us; but we are defending right, the natural law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the three hundred Spartans
20. It was a little lame schoolmaster, Tyrtaeus, who aroused the Spartans by his poetry and led them to victory against the foe
21. The Spartans under Lycurgus were educated, but their education was mainly a physical one, and it did not reach the lower orders
