Quotes by Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

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Phobologic discipline is comprised of twenty-eight exercises, each focusing upon a separate nexus of the nervous system. — Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, h — Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and they are — Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble — Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
He who whets his steel, whets his courage — Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae