Which line from the passage best supports the idea
that money corrupts government?
The accumulation of gold in the treasury of private
individuals is the ruin of timocracy [a state where only
property owners can participate in government]; they
invent illegal modes of expenditure; for what do they or
their wives care about the law? And then one, seeing
another grow rich, seeks to rival him, and thus the great
mass of the citizens become lovers of money And so
at last, instead of loving contention and glory, men
become lovers of trade and money; they honor and look
up to the rich man, and make a ruler of him, and
dishonor the poor man.
-The Republic,
Plato
O "For what do they or their wives care about the
law?"
O "The great mass of the citizens become lovers of
money."
O "Instead of loving contention and glory, men
become lovers of trade."
O "[Men] honor and look up to the rich man, and make
a ruler of him."
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Done