Plato, Laws 705d

ῥᾳδίως δύνασθαί τινα πόλιν ἀγαθόν. εἰς δὴ τί τῶν εἰρημένων βλέψας εἶπες ὃ λέγεις; ὦ δαιμόνιε, φύλαττέ με εἰς τὸ κατʼ ἀρχὰς εἰρημένον ἀποβλέπων, τὸ περὶ τῶν Κρητικῶν νόμων ὡς πρὸς ἕν τι βλέποιεν, καὶ δὴ καὶ τοῦτʼ ἐλεγέτην αὐτὸ εἶναι σφὼ τὸ πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον, ἐγὼ δὲ ὑπολαβὼν εἶπον ὡς ὅτι μὲν εἰς ἀρετήν ποι βλέποι τὰ τοιαῦτα νόμιμα κείμενα, καλῶς ἔχοι, τὸ δὲ ὅτι πρὸς μέρος ἀλλʼ οὐ πρὸς πᾶσαν σχεδόν, οὐ

That a State should not find it easy to copy its enemies in bad habits is a good thing. To which of our statements does this observation allude? My dear Sir, keep a watch on me, with an eye cast back on our opening statement about the Cretan laws. It asserted that those laws aimed at one single object; and whereas you declared that this object was military strength, I made the rejoinder that, while it was right that such enactments should have virtue for their aim, I did not at all approve of that aim being restricted to a part, instead of applying to the whole.