Carolina QuotesIt 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?
Steven Pressfield Connected to the Carolinas
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Damon p. 221
- work
- Last of the Amazons (2002)
- year
- 2002
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- p. 221
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“It is a terrible thing to be a king, especially a great one,…” Steven Pressfield. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-557479A7FF. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/557479a7ff
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Straight to her face advanced the Athenian Lykos, and it must be said that it took no slender spirit for him to do so, such was the light of slaughter in the Amazon's eyes. "What do you call this, thou savage!" The prince gestured to the broth irrigating the walls and floors of the canyon. "Are these God's footsteps?" Is this the 'path of holiness' in which your race treads?" Theseus hastened forward, reining-in at his countryman's shoulder. "This is not war," Lykos bellowed to Antiope. "It is butchery!" Theseus sought to speak, as if to offer extenuation for the actions of the Amazons. Lykos cut him off with a curse. "You cannot defend the indefensible!"
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