Lycurgus considered in theft the vivacity, diligence, boldness, and de… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Lycurgus considered in theft the vivacity, diligence, boldness, and dexterity of purloining any thing from our neighbours, and the benefit that redounded to the public that every one should look more narrowly to the conservation of what was his own; and believed that, from this double institution of assaulting and defending, advantage was to be made for military discipline (which was the principal science and virtue to which he would inure that nation), of greater consideration than the disorder and injustice of taking another man's goods.

Lugar: Chapter XII. Apology For Raimond Sebond. · ¶2757
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