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This book has a lot of great information about Sparta inside of it. It includes the lives of many prominent Spartans by Plutarch, quotes from Sparta kings and women, and Xenophon's short essay on Spartan society. I will provide some quotes from these authors about Sparta with my commentary:

Antalcidas, a Spartan citizen: "To the Athenian who was calling the Spartans uneducated, he said: 'At least we are the only ones who have learned nothing wicked from you.'"

After the Enlightenment, with its prophecies of how divine "reason" could destroy the "prejudices" of all, every liberal of today believes that only an "ignorant" man could be against castrating one's self, destroying one's lineage through miscegenation, and letting thugs run free in our society. In the liberal's view, such beliefs could only come from a "bigot", who, with his "unconscious biases", decides to irrationally hate others. However, such an "ignorant" man with the above beliefs simply lacks the miseducation the liberal got in university or through public school. He is connected with his natural instincts � to hate chaos and evil, to preserve his blood, to love the normal standard of nature. And thus he is superior in so far as he has "learned nothing wicked".

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Agesilaus, a 4th century B.C. Spartan king: "To the man who was amazed at how modest his clothes and his meals were, and those of the other Spartans as well, he said: 'Freedom is what we reap from this way of life, my friend.'"

Imagine a lawyer, dutifully working on his career. He puts in 80-hour weeks and brings in hundreds of thousands of dollars. Though hateful of his work, betraying his fellow man by the day, and an alcoholic due to his daily lies, he has gathered a good pile of money. He really wants a wet hole (he says, "I want a woman") so he buys a fancy Lamborghini and a huge house in a fancy neighborhood. He smiles at the purchase, but he knows he will have to keep working 80 hour weeks to maintain his lifestyle. He gets his woman � in reality, a leech for his money � and his expensive monthly payments on his car and house. But, "damn it", he thinks, "my neighbor over there has a Bugatti and 1000 sq. ft more than me!". He needs more! So he works 90 hours a week. He's tired, he hates his life, but God he just needs that new car. His wife will start having sex with him again if he gets it. He knows it!

Such is the life of a complete slave � a slave to money, a slave to women, a slave to material possessions. Such a life will never be well lived, and, most importantly, never be free. One is always trying to get a new thing, and never thinking about one should be doing. Life is lost in an eternal chase after non-existent goods and false idols. On the other hand, resisting the chase of these goods (even as your friends parade them on their social media) leads to freedom. The freedom for what? The freedom to not have to chase after nothingness. The freedom to live as one ought to live, and to not be enslaved to externals. This is true freedom, as opposed to the "freedom" given to you by a man-made constitution.

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Pausanias, king of Sparta: "When another doctor said to him: 'You have become an old man,' he said 'Yes, because I didn't employ you as my doctor.'"

Pausanias again: "When one of his friends was criticizing him for disparaging a particular doctor even though he had never consulted him nor been done any harm by him, he said, 'My point is that, had I gone to consult him, I should not be alive now.'"

The pharmaceutical industry, funding perhaps every mainstream doctor in the United States, has led to a country of unparalleled sickness and fatness. Root causes are never examined. A pill can be prescribed for everything, instead of fixing the basics, diet and exercise. Diet recommendations are confused and illogical. Fiber � by definition, indigestable plant material � is prescribed to help digestion. They tell us meat is terribly carcinogenic, and raw meat even worse, having "bacteria" on it, so we burn the few servings of meat we do eat, adding real carcinogens. Some have even replaced meat with a laboratory-made soy concoction.

We are recommended "healthy" plant oils, which are made in a factory, put through nine different machines, bleached, mixed with benzene, and heated up to thousands of degrees Fahrenheit. How natural! When these same oils end up making us sick, we are told that we can fix ourselves with antibiotics. What is the root of the word antibiotics? Anti-bios, which means "anti-life". Antibiotics are anti-life, and they destroy your gut and your body.

Through antibiotics and other pills, we have become a nation of drug addicts. It truly is sickening. Think about what a human would naturally eat. Then eat it. Stop eating so many processed seeds � which include grains and nuts � as that is the part of the plant that it most needs to protect to reproduce. Protect with what? With poisonous chemicals that go into your body. Eat naturally, train your body, get off the pills, and ignore your doctors. And hunt and eat raw animals if you can. Such is the Spartan recommendation to live a healthy life.

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An anonymous Spartan woman: "When an Ionian woman was priding herself on one of the tapestries she had made (which was indeed of great value), a Spartan woman showed off her four most dutiful sons and said they were the kind of thing a noble and good woman ought to produce, and should boast of them and take pride in them.'"

I believe we have many Ionian women today. Women have been told since the 1960s that the value of making dollar bills is greater than that of raising children. The "love" gotten from a boss who can replace you at any second is greater than the love of your own progeny. Money can buy you fancy clothes and more makeup � all wonderful things, but for whom? Why does anyone dress up? For the attention of the opposite sex! Deep down, I believe, most modern women still want to have families and children with strong men. They do not consciously realize this though, even though their actions convey this desire of theirs. We need more Spartan women who take pride in their children and in their raising of them. Such an occupation, not paid in paper, is truly the most important of all.

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Charillus, an 8th century B.C. Spartan king: "When someone was asking why they let unmarried girls appear in public unveiled, but their wives veiled, he said: 'Because the girls need to find husbands, whereas the wives must stick to their own husbands.'"

"Conservatives" in the United States say that the Islamic practice of veiling women is "barbaric" and against the all-holy principle of "women's rights". However, it is a simple pragmatic solution. If you have a wife, you do not want to be cuckolded. She knows who her children are � they came out of her � but you do not. If you do not ensure your paternity, you can waste 18 years of resources on someone who is not your own. How do you ensure your paternity? You stop other men from hitting on your wife. What are men attracted to? Women's external appearance � their breasts, buttocks, and waist-to-hip ratio. Therefore, if you cover these external traits, less men will be turned on by your wife, less men will approach her, and your chance of being cuckolded will decrease. Your society will be more stable, as fewer men will be attacking and killing other men for cuckolding them.

In addition, why should women want to show their external traits to the public once married? Is not the whole point of marriage singular fidelity? The only reason, presumably, would be to get attention from other men. And we all know the road that such attention leads down.