Ancient Quote by Thomas Day Download Open image “I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.” — Thomas Day ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient British Compare Education
The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad -… — A.E. Coppard Copy Share Image
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus because he's… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“Some thirty-six years after the death of Leonidas, King Agesilaus of Sparta, as Plutarch recounts, showed that the essential Spartan spirit, which distinguished her… — Ernle Bradford Copy Share Image
“We remember the Spartan ambassador who, being asked in whose name he had come, replied: ‘In the name of the State, if I succeed;… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact - and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror. — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation. — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
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