An idea from Parallel Lives

Lysander lived poor and kept none of the war’s plunder for himself. But he sent the gold home to Sparta, and the city learned to love it. “He taught Sparta to want the very things which he himself had learned to do without.”

From Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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