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The Spartan constitution has remained unchanged for somewhat over four hundred years dating to the end of this war—a source of strength, enabling their political intervention in other states.
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“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
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