Bettany Hughes quotes

Bettany Hughes quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.”
-- Bettany Hughes

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“For the Spartans, it wasnâ€™t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!”
-- Bettany Hughes

#Wall Quotes #War Quotes #Heart Quotes
“For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!”
-- Bettany Hughes

#Wall Quotes #War Quotes #Heart Quotes

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