The morals of the Spartans necessarily grew corrupt as soon as the Lacedaemonian poverty came in contact with Persian luxury and Athenian elegance.

Lycurgus, then, made a fatal mistake in attempting to inspire generosity and modesty by enforcing vain and proud simplicity.
"Lycurgus was not frightened at idleness! A Lacedemonian, happening to be in Athens (where idleness was forbidden) during the punishment of a citizen who had been found guilty, asked to see the Athenian thus condemned for having exercised the rights of a free man....

It was one of the principles of Lycurguss, acted upon for several centuries, that free men should not follow lucrative professions....

The women disdained domestic labor; they did not spin their wool themselves, as did the other Greeks [they did not, then, read Homer!]; they left their slaves to make their clothing for them."-- Pastoret: History of Legislation.
Could any thing be more contradictory?
Lycurgus proscribed property among the citizens, and founded the means of subsistence on the worst form of property,--on property obtained by force.

What wonder, after that, that a lazy city, where no industry was carried on, became a den of avarice?
The Spartans succumbed the more easily to the allurements of luxury and Asiatic voluptuousness, being placed entirely at their mercy by their own coarseness.