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- I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta… — Bettany Hughes
- "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In… — Janet Morris
- Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
- A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much."… — Plutarch
- What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta. — Thucydides
- The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches... — Euripides