Apophthegmata Laconica
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Androcleidas the Spartan, who had a crippled leg, enrolled himself among the fighting-men. And when some persons were insistent that he be not accepted because he was crippled, he said,
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But I do not have to run away, but to stay where I am when I fight the opposing foe.
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