Again, the following surely entitles the work
						of Lycurgus to high admiration. He observed that where the cult of virtue is
						left to voluntary effort, the virtuous are not strong enough to increase the
						fame of their fatherland. So he compelled all men at Sparta to practise all the virtues in
						public life. And therefore, just as private individuals differ from one
						another in virtue according as they practise or neglect it, so Sparta , as a matter of course,
						surpasses all other states in virtue, because she alone makes a public duty
						of gentlemanly conduct. For was not this too a noble rule of his, that whereas other states punish
						only for wrong done to one’s neighbour, he inflicted penalties no less
						severe on any who openly neglected to live as good a life as possible?