It is not, however, possible to turn men from their errors, or to inspire in them the
 desire for a different course of action without first roundly condemning their present
 conduct; and a distinction must be made between accusation, when one denounces with intent
 to injure, and admonition, Cf. Isoc.
 8.72 . when one uses like words with intent to benefit; for the same
 words are not to be interpreted in the same way unless they are spoken in the same spirit.
 For we have reason to reproach the Lacedaemonians for this also, that in the interest of
 their own city they compel their neighbors to live in serfdom, In his second letter to Philip, 5, Isocrates urges him to make all the
 barbarians, excepting those who join forces with him, serfs of the Hellenes. but
 for the common advantage of their allies they refuse to bring about a similar condition,
 although it lies in their power to make up their quarrel with us and reduce all the
 barbarians to a state of subjection to the whole of Hellas . And yet it is the duty of men who are proud because of natural gifts and not merely
 because of fortune to undertake such deeds much rather than to levy tribute For tribute levied by Sparta see Xen. Hell. 6.2.16 . 
 on the islanders, The Cyclades , hilly and comparatively barren. who are deserving of
 their pity, seeing that because of the scarcity of land they are compelled to till
 mountains, while the people of the mainland, The
 “mainlanders”—Persian subjects in Asia
 Minor . because of the abundance of their territory, allow most of it
 to lie waste, and have, nevertheless, from that part of it which they do harvest, grown
 immensely rich. It is my opinion that if anyone should come here from another part of the world and
 behold the spectacle of the present state of our affairs, he would charge both the
 Athenians and the Lacedaemonians with utter madness, not only because we risk our lives
 fighting as we do over trifles when we might enjoy in security a wealth of possessions,
 but also because we continually impoverish our own territory while neglecting to exploit
 that of Asia .