Steven Pressfield

"Do you love your country? This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor."

"This aspis was my father's and his father's before him. I have sworn before God to die before another man took this from my hand. He crossed to the ranks of Thespians, to a man, an obscure warrior amo…"

"Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance."

"I had always wondered what it felt like to die."

"Nothing relieves Irish despair. The Irishman's complaint lies not with his circumstance, which might be rendered brilliant by labour or luck, but with injustice of existence itself. Death! How could a…"

"To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be."

"At Athens and Athens alone, a new stamp of person was being born, neither baron nor yeoman, but a man of the city. A citizen."

"It is a terrible thing to be a king, especially a great one, for one must serve ideals of the spirit at the price of lovers of flesh and blood. Who profits from a king's fidelity save generations a th…"