Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.

Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.

Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.

The only unfair fight is the one you lose.