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When someone inquired why they kept the laws in regard to bravery unwritten, and did not have [p. 325] them written down and thus give them to the young men to read, Zeuxidamus said, ‘Because the young ought to accustom themselves to deeds of manly valour, a better thing than to apply their mind to writings.’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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