And you will deserve this reward; for you have extolled both these cities well and
 fittingly—Athens, according to the acclaim of the majority, which no man of note has ever
 disdained, while all men in their craving to obtain it are ready to submit themselves to
 any hazard whatsoever; but Sparta , according
 to the reasoning of those who endeavor to aim at the truth, whose good opinion some would
 choose in preference to that of all the rest of the world, even were mankind to number
 twice as many as now. “I am insatiable in my desire to speak on the present occasion and I still have many
 things which I might say concerning you and these two cities and your discourse, but I
 shall forgo these subjects and declare myself only upon the question about which, as you
 say, you called me in to advise you. I counsel you, then, not to burn or to suppress your
 discourse, but—if there be any need of so doing—to revise and supplement it and then give
 to those who desire it the benefit of all the time and pains which you have spent upon its
 composition,