<Tr> <Td> Stranger, go tell the Spartans That we lie here True, even to the death To our Spartan way of life . </Td> <Td> J. Rufus Fears </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Go tell the Spartans, passerby: That here, by Spartan law, we lie . </Td> <Td> Frank Miller (subsequently used in the 2007 film, 300) </Td> </Tr> <P> The first line of the epigram was used as the title of the short story "Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We ..." by German Nobel Prize laureate Heinrich Böll . A variant of the epigram is inscribed on the Polish Cemetery at Monte Cassino . </P> <P> John Ruskin expressed the importance of this ideal to Western civilization as follows: </P>

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