Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old spartan quotes, spartan sayings, and spartan proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.Plutarch
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Spartans, eat well, for tonight we dine in Hades.King Leonidas
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The walls of Sparta were its young men, and its borders the points of their spears.King Agesilaos
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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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Give them nothing, but take from them everything.King Leonidas
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Come back with your shield - or on it.Plutarch
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He who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.Spartan Warrior Creed
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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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After invading Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, Philip II of Macedon sent a message to Spart: "If I invade Laconia you will be destroyed, never to rise again." The Spartan ephors replied with a single word: "If".Anonymous
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The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.Frank Miller
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No retreat, no surrender; that is Spartan law. And by Spartan law, we will stand and fight, and die.King Leonidas
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That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.Lycurgus of Sparta
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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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Only Spartan women give birth to real men.Gorgo, Queen of Sparta
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The Spartans are the equal of any men when they fight as individuals; fighting together as a collective, they surpass all other men.Damaratus
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Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.Vince Lombardi
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There's no room for softness... not in Sparta. No place for weakness. Only the hard and strong may call themselves Spartans. Only the hard, only the strong.Dilios