Nikad nisam u bici,ni igdje drugdje ,ni ja ni itko od ljudi prisutnih ispod hrastova,vidio da Dijaneku popuste uzde samokontrole kojima je tako čvrsto i suzdržano upravljao iz srca.Sada se moglo vidjeti kako priziva sve preostale djeliće volje da se sabere i povrati strogoću Spartanca i časnika.Ispustivši dah,koji u stvari nije bio uzdah nego nešto dublje,poput samrtnog zvižduka koji daimon čini kada bježi kroz grlo,pustio je beživotno Aleksandrovo tijelo i nježno ga položio na grimizni ogrtač koji se ispod njega prostirao po zemlji.Svojom desnom rukom potapšao je ruku mladića koji mu je bio štićenik od prvog dana svoga rođenja.
-Zaboravio si na naš lov,Aleksandre.Imali bismo tako veličanstven lov ovdje najesen.
Reći ću Njegovom Veličanstvu što je kralj.Kralj ne boravi u svome šatoru dok njegovi ljudi krvare i ginu na ratištu.Kralj ne objeduje dok njegovi ljudi gladuju niti spava dok drže stražu na zidu.Kralj ne zapovijeda vjernošću svojih ljudi preko straha niti je kupuje zlatom;zaradjuje njihovu ljubav znojem svojih ledja i patnjom koje podnosi za njihovo dobro.Ono što predstavlja najteži teret ,kralj prvi podiže i poslednji odlaže.Kralj ne zahtijeva da mu suže oni koje vodi,već on to čini njima.On služi njih,ne oni njega.
Steven PressfieldYou have never tasted freedom, friend,” Dienekes spoke, “or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.”
Pressfield, Steven (2007-01-30). Gates of Fire (p. 47). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.
Steven PressfieldStichwörter: art soul america creativity consumerism destiny
A youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience, however ghastly, for the lad longs before all for the lined face and chiseled squint of the veteran. Even his submissions to terror, the very shit with which he paints his thighs under fire is trophy to him; he points it out to his comrades, laughing in the aftercourse of action as if it were a decoration for valour, for it makes him a salt, a veteran, an old hand.
Steven PressfieldWarfare is theatre, I have said, and the essence of theatre is aritifce. What we show, we will not do. What we don't show, we will do.
Steven PressfieldStay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart.
Steven PressfieldStichwörter: advice
When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and not
campaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.
Stichwörter: goals war dreams business pressfeil
Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend
makes them timorous.
Stichwörter: progress war moving-forward attack
that of dealing death, of loosing another man’s soul and sending it down to hell. You want to savor it, to twist the blade deeper and pull the man’s heart and guts out upon the iron point of your spear,
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