For he believed, it seems, that enslavement, fraud, robbery, are crimes that
						injure only the victims of them; but the wicked man and the coward are
						traitors to the whole body politic. And so he had good reason, I think, for
						visiting their offences with the heaviest penalties. And he laid on the people the duty of
						practising the whole virtue of a citizen as a necessity irresistible. For to
						all who satisfied the requirements of his code he gave equal rights of
						citizenship, without regard to bodily infirmity or want of money. But the
						coward who shrank from the task of observing the rules of his code he caused
						to be no more reckoned among the peers.