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“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.”

Archilochus, Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochos

Stephen Pressfield referenced this ancient quote as metaphor for the vast Persian military against the Greek phalanx at Thermopylae. The phalanx being the embodiment of the Hedgehog 🦔.