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You know, Leonidas,
people call me a master politician.
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Also a cynic, mountebank and a charlatan.
They're all wrong.
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I'm nothing but a sentimental old fool
desperately in love with a dream:
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one free, united Greece.
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That is no dream.
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I think we should have told Demophilus
that we are only 300 Spartans.
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And ruin all my work?
I've sent 20 runners around with the news
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that the entire Spartan army
is marching north.
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- But that's not true.
- Truth is a heady wine, friend.
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A politician must never exaggerate
people's capacity for it.
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- I thank the gods I am only a soldier.
- And I thank them I'm a politician.
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Between us we may make
our dream come true.
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I must get back to my boats.
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Get the men ready.
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Halt!
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Spartans! We have reached Thermopylae.
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The orders are,
from this wall we do not retreat.