• BlackRose
    #450
    "According to Aristotle, the Spartan military culture was actually short-sighted and ineffective. He observed:

    It is the standards of civilized men not of beasts that must be kept in mind, for it is good men not beasts who are capable of real courage. Those like the Spartans who concentrate on the one and ignore the other in their education turn men into machines and in devoting themselves to one single aspect of city's life, end up making them inferior even in that."