How clearly his true nobility comes out in his opinion that a victory in the
 chariot race over private citizens would add not a whit to his renown; but
 if he held the first place in the affection of the people, gained the most
 friends and best all over the world, outstripped all others in serving his
 fatherland and his comrades and in punishing his adversaries, then he would
 be victor in the noblest and most splendid contests, and would gain high
 renown both in life and after death. Such, then, are the qualities for which I
 praise Agesilaus. These are the marks that distinguish him, say, from the
 man who, lighting on a treasure, becomes wealthier but not wiser in
 business, or from the man who wins victory through an outbreak of sickness
 among the enemy, and adds to his success but not to his knowledge of
 strategy. The man who is foremost in endurance when the hour comes for toil,
 in valour when the contest calls for courage, in wisdom when the need is for
 counsel — he is the man, I think, who may fairly be regarded as the perfect
 embodiment of goodness.