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“Habit will be your champion. When you train the mind to think one way and one way only, when you refuse to allow it to think in another, that will produce great strength in battle.”
― Gates of Fire
― Gates of Fire
“As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.”
― Gates of Fire
― Gates of Fire
“The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.”
― Gates of Fire
― Gates of Fire
“Never forget, Alexandros, that this flesh, this body, does not belong to us. Thank God it doesn’t. If I thought this stuff was mine, I could not advance a pace into the face of the enemy. But it is not ours, my friend. It belongs to the gods and to our children, our fathers and mothers and those of Lakedaemon a hundred, a thousand years yet unborn. It belongs to the city which gives us all we have and demands no less in requital.”
― Gates of Fire
― Gates of Fire
“Because a warrior carries helmet and breastplate for his own protection, but his shield for the safety of the whole line.”
― Gates of Fire
― Gates of Fire
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