States are rightly advised when they desire to have the praise of men; and the greatest and truest praise is that of virtue.

And our Cretan colony should, and probably will, have a character for virtue, such as few cities have.

Let this, then, be our law about foreign travel and the reception of strangers:--No one shall be allowed to leave the country who is under forty years of age--of course military service abroad is not included in this regulation--and no one at all except in a public capacity.

To the Olympic, and Pythian, and Nemean, and Isthmian games, shall be sent the fairest and best and bravest, who shall support the dignity of the city in time of peace.

These, when they come home, shall teach the youth the inferiority of all other governments.