Saturday, November 10, 2012

The Hardest School


Said Archidamus, the Spartan King (ca 432, B.C.), "a man who had a reputation for both intelligence and moderation ... 'There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another: but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.'"[1]



[1] Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, translated by Rex Warner (London: Penguin Books, 1954), 82-85.

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