Citas de Esparta

• The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

  Eurípides

  Daughter, Home, Wrestling

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• Una dama extranjera comentó una vez a la esposa de un comandante espartano que las mujeres de Esparta eran las únicas mujeres del mundo que podían gobernar a los hombres. "Somos las únicas mujeres que educamos a los hombres", replicó la dama espartana.

  Plutarch

  Men, Wife, World

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• Para los espartanos, no eran las murallas ni los magníficos edificios públicos los que hacían una ciudad; eran sus propios ideales. En esencia, Esparta era una ciudad de la cabeza y el corazón. Y existía en su forma más pura en la disciplinada marcha de una falange de hoplitas camino de la guerra.

  Bettany Hughes

  Muro, Guerra, Corazón

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• Come back with your shield - or on it

  Plutarch

  Greek, Shields, Empires

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• Para que su lugar nunca esté con esas almas frías y tímidas que no conocieron ni la victoria ni la derrota.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Coraje, Badass, Militar

  Discurso en la Sorbona, París, 23 de abril de 1910. Richard M. Nixon citó este pasaje en su discurso a la nación anunciando su decisión de renunciar a la presidencia, 8 de agosto de 1974. Véase Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is to constitute it as Sparta and Venice were constituted; to place it in a strong position, and so to fortify it that no one will dream of taking it by a sudden assault; and, on the other hand, not to make it so large as to appear formidable to its neighbors. It should in this way be able to enjoy its form of government for a long time. For war is made on a commonwealth for two reasons: to subjugate it, and for fear of being subjugated by it.

  Nicolás Maquiavelo

  Dream, Art, Strong

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• Only Spartan women give birth to real men.

  Gorgo, Queen of Sparta

  Real, Hombres, Dar

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• Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

  Diógenes

  Niños, Hombres, Buen Hombre

  "Vidas y opiniones de filósofos eminentes, Libro 6: Los cínicos". Libro de Diógenes Laërtius traducido por R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

  Tucídides

  War, Growth, Alarms

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

  Plutarch

  Warrior, Son, Shields

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• Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece, and the only thing he liked to do was horse around with kids when he was back from slaughtering. One thing that feminism revealed is that being a distant patriarchal figure was not something men wanted to be. They want to be more involved in the lives of their children, and you can see that once they're allowed to have that connection, they crave it.

  Stephen Marche

  Horse, Kings, Children

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

  Diógenes

  Men, Boys, Good Man

  "Vidas y opiniones de filósofos eminentes, Libro 6: Los cínicos". Libro de Diógenes Laërtius traducido por R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."

  Janet Morris

  God, Drinking, Blue

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• Una república armada se somete menos fácilmente al gobierno de uno de sus ciudadanos que una república armada por fuerzas extranjeras. Roma y Esparta estuvieron durante muchos siglos bien armadas y fueron libres. Los suizos están bien armados y gozan de gran libertad. Entre otros males que causa el estar desarmado, te hace despreciable. No es razonable suponer que quien está armado obedecerá de buen grado a quien está desarmado; o que cualquier hombre desarmado permanecerá seguro entre sirvientes armados.

  Nicolás Maquiavelo

  Hombres, Roma, Mal

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• Roma permaneció libre durante cuatrocientos años y Esparta ochocientos, aunque sus ciudadanos estuvieron armados todo ese tiempo; pero muchos otros estados que han sido desarmados han perdido sus libertades en menos de cuarenta años.

  Nicolás Maquiavelo

  Gun, Eight, Rome

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• Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."

  Plutarch

  Beautiful, Fashion, Hair

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 57 Lycurgus. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Athens, Modern, Ability

  Rita Mae Brown (1987). “Poems”

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• Esparta debe considerarse como el primer estado völkisch. La exposición de los niños enfermos, débiles, deformes, en suma, su destrucción, era más decente y en verdad mil veces más humana que la miserable locura de nuestros días que conserva el sujeto más patológico.

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Sick, Insanity

  "Hitler's Secret Book". Grove Press softcover book, 1961.

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• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

  Plutarch

  Believe, Long, Legs

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.433

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• Vamos camino de convertirnos en la Esparta del siglo XXI, armados hasta los dientes y sin capacidad para cuidar de nuestra propia gente.

  Dennis Kucinich

  People, Teeth, Care

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• It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.

  Robert Dabney

  Education, Children, Plato

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• Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look like Ronald McDonald. (Ben)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Son, Men, Mcdonalds

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Fantasy Lover”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

  Tucídides

  War, History, Growth

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• How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.

  John Locke

  Pain, Thinking, Evil

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.52

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• Pequeña Esparta es un jardín en el sentido tradicional. Quizá no sea como otros jardines modernos, pero creo que en otras épocas no habría tenido ninguna dificultad.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Garden, Thinking, Littles

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