If anyone doubts this, let him mark what sort of a house contented him, and
 in particular, let him look at the doors: one might imagine that they were
 the very doors that Aristodemus, the descendant of Heracles Aristodemus was great-grandson of Hyllus, son of
 Heracles. Xenophon follows the Lacedaemonian account, according to which
 Aristodemus himself was leader at the time when the Lacedaemonians
 obtained Sparta ( Hdt. 6.52 ). His sons, Eurysthenes and Procles,
 became the first joint-kings. set up with his own hands in the
 days of his home-coming. Let him try to picture the scene within; note how
 he entertained on days of sacrifice, hear how his daughter used to go down
 to Amyclae To the feast of Hyacinthus; see
 Xen. Ages. 2.17 . in a public
 car. And so, thanks to this nice adjustment of his expenditure to his income, he
 was never compelled to commit an act of injustice for the sake of money.
 Doubtless it is thought noble to build oneself fortresses impregnable to
 an enemy: but in my judgment it is far nobler to fortify one’s own soul
 against all the assaults of lucre, of pleasure, and of fear.