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Selected quotes

• "It must be said, for the sake of historical truth, that amongst all our opponents, only the Greeks fought with such endless courage and defiance of death."

A speech made by Adolf Hitler after the Battle of Greece.

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• Greek: Μολών Λαβέ

• English: Come and get them.

These famous words where said by King Leonidas I of Sparta at the Battle of Thermopylae when asked by a herald of King Xerxes I of Persia for Leonidas and the Spartans to give up their arms.

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• "Look at the time Charon chose to take me, Now that the branches are flowering, Now that the earth sends forth grass."

Quoted from Athanasios Diakos, a leader in the Greek War of Independence as he was impaled on a spit by the Ottomans.

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• "A sound of wailing ran from Piraeus through the long walls to the city, one man passing on the news to another; and during that night no one slept, all mourning, not for the lost alone, but far more for their own selves."

Xenophon describes Athens when the news of the Athenian's decisive defeat at Aegospotami reached Athens.