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Steven Pressfield approached Sacrifice from first principles, cutting through assumptions to reveal fundamental truths. This archive captures that thinking, giving you access to frameworks you can build on. Every quote is sourced and contextualized, allowing you to understand their reasoning. Use this when you need to think clearly about Sacrifice without inheriting broken mental models.
"You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel. Dienekes p. 60"
Website: Wikiquote - Steven Pressfield (Gates of Fire (1998))
"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 thousand years unborn, and which of his works will they recall at that remove, or care? Damon p. 221"
Website: Wikiquote - Steven Pressfield (Last of the Amazons (2002))
"Do you love your country? [...] This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor. Orontes (Handing over Xeones' corpse to Athenian civilians) p. 430"
Website: Wikiquote - Steven Pressfield (Gates of Fire (1998))
"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 among them. Into the fellow's grasp he placed the shield. Polynikes p. 405"
Website: Wikiquote - Steven Pressfield (Gates of Fire (1998))
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