Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta." (Diogenes of Sinope)

Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

Diogenes of Sinope

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