The Spartan Way/Quotes
Non Fiction
You cannot make a good soldier until you have trained him to the point he can take some pride in merely surviving it.
—Old military maxim
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Train hard, fight easy.
—Alexander Suvorov
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Pain is weakness leaving the body.
—US Marine Corps recruiting slogan
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...here are a few more pictures of Spetsnaz training, which, as far as I can tell, is basically just a bunch of big, gigantic, frighteningly-jacked Russian dudes beating the unholy shitburgers out of each other with pipes, chains, and dead cats, all of which may or may not currently be on fire.
—Badass of the Week regarding Spesnaz training.
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The whip which degraded the Helot served to ennoble the Spartan boy...The master was most the master who could best endure the toils of a slave.
—Persian Fire, by Tom Holland
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Fiction
Gwendolyn: Faith, do you know who the Spartans were? |
Your life shall be a series of trials, one after the other until you attain the glory that is your due at the right side of the Emperor. You shall face the hardest first, so that we know we are not wasting our time.
—Chaplain Sighelm, of the Celestial Lions, Warhammer 40,000
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"More madness," said Arstan, when he heard. "How can any man possibly remember a new name every day?" |
He held his arm too stiffly, and so was thrown back repeatedly, until at last I seized his forearm and snapped it back against itself. His training suffered while the arm healed, of course, but I felt this was a lesson he must learn early, and well.
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'...learn to love death's ink-black shadow as much as you love the light of dawn.
—Tyrtaeus of Sparta
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Lets get down to business. To defeat the Huns. |
When a mother gives birth in our fortress, the guards come and take the child away. The mother may protest, but the child no longer belongs to her, but the fortress. —Dwarf Fortress forum, "Dwarven Childcare" project[1]
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Marcus Cole: The Minbari say the only way to understand the battle is to understand the language. War is as much concept as execution. —Babylon 5, A Late Delivery From Avalon.
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- ↑ it was possible to implement at least at the time, though not very practical