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  1. Here lies Megistias, who died When the Mede passed Sephulchros' tide; A Prophet, though he would not save Himself, sharing the Spartan grav…
  2. We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
  3. O xein!, angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti teide keimetha tois keinon rhemasi peithomenoi.
  4. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.
  5. A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
  6. Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared ex…
  7. It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.
  8. The city is the teacher of the man.

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