My victories have left sufficient offspring: Leuctra and Mantinea.

我が勝利は十分な子孫を残した。レウクトラとマンティネイアという。

Epaminondas

Military Strategists

Epaminondas

The Theban general who shattered Sparta's military supremacy at Leuctra (371 BCE) by inventing the oblique order — concentrating overwhelming force at a single decisive point while refusing engagement elsewhere. Epaminondas's tactical revolution became the foundation of all subsequent Western military thought, from Alexander to Napoleon.

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Epaminondas's Other Quotes

One day of virtuous action is worth a month of idleness.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.

Have we won? Then it is enough.

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