Those who are rightly governed, on the other hand, do not need to fill their
 porticoes Since Solon’s time, Athenian laws were posted
 on pillars in the “King’s Portico,” by the market-place. See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 7 . with written statutes,
 but only to cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals,
 that states are well directed, since men who are badly reared will venture to transgress
 even laws which are drawn up with minute exactness, whereas those who are well brought up
 will be willing to respect even a simple code. Cf. Plat. Rep. 425a ff. 
 Therefore, being of this mind, our forefathers did not seek to discover first how they
 should penalize men who were lawless, but how they should produce citizens who would
 refrain from any punishable act; for they thought that this was their duty, while it was
 proper for private enemies alone to be zealous in the avenging of crime. The initiative in bringing criminals to justice was left
 largely to private citizens, any one of whom might bring charges before a court. 
 Now our forefathers exercised care over all the citizens, but most of all over the
 young. They saw that at this age men are most unruly of temper and filled with a multitude
 of desires, Cf. Plat. Laws
 808d . and that their spirits are most in need of being curbed by
 devotion to noble pursuits and by congenial labor; for only such occupations can attract
 and hold men who have been educated liberally and trained in high-minded ways. However, since it was not possible to direct all into the same occupations, because of
 differences in their circumstances, they assigned to each one a vocation which was in
 keeping with his means; for they turned the needier towards farming and trade, knowing
 that poverty comes about through idleness, and evil-doing through poverty. Accordingly, they believed that by removing the root of evil they would deliver the young
 from the sins which spring from it. On the other hand, they compelled those who possessed
 sufficient means to devote themselves to horsemanship, That
 is, in training for the races at the festivals. athletics, There were three gymnasiums in Athens : the Lyceum, the Academy, and the Cynosarges. hunting, In Aristoph. Kn. 1382 ff. ,
 the reformed Demos declares that it will henceforth make all these demagogues take to
 hunting and give up concocting “decrees” for the Assembly. and philosophy, The cultivated life. See Isoc. 4.47
 ff. observing that by these pursuits some are enabled to achieve
 excellence, others to abstain from many vices.