An idea from Laws

Sparta trains against pain and never against pleasure, so half its citizen stays a slave. The usual tests of a man’s self-control cost you a bargain or a daughter. A drinking party under a sober master is the cheap test, and shame gets its training there.

From Laws by Plato

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