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Book: Gates of Fire
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
I asked what he was laughing at. "I was just wondering if it was possible to get any more miserable." He chuckled darkly. "I suppose if a river snake crawled up my ass and gave birth to quintuplets…
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
We slew three hundred of them," replied Artemisia, "and it took two million of us to do it." These
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men's loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pains he endures for their sake. That which comprises the harshest burden, a king lifts first and sets down last. A king does not require service of those he leads but provides it to them. He serves them, not they him.
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
Man is weak, greedy, craven, lustful, prey to every species of vice and depravity. He will lie, steal, cheat, murder, melt down the very statues of the gods and coin their gold as money for whores. This is man.
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
And they knew that when battle came, he would take his place not safely in the rear, but in the front rank, at the hottest and most perilous spot on the field.
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
It is that peculiar soldiers' humor which springs from the experience of shared misery and often translates poorly to those not on the spot and enduring the same hardship.
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
Dienekes says the mind is like a house with many rooms," he said. "There are rooms one must not go into. To anticipate one's death is one of those rooms. We must not allow ourselves even to think it.
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
A king does not expend his substance to enslave men, but by his conduct and example makes them free.
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
What husband is he who abandons his wife? What wife is she taken without love? The gods demand of us action and the use of our free will! That is piety, not to buckle beneath necessity's yoke like dumb beasts!
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
performing the commonplace under uncommonplace conditions.
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
instill courage not by his words alone but by the calm and professional manner with which he spoke them. War is work, not mystery."
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Steven Pressfield _ Gates of Fire
Because a warrior carries helmet and breastplate for his own protection, but his shield for the safety of the whole line.
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