The Republic · ¶5462
Wealth, the advantage of, in old age, 1. 329, 330; the greatest blessing of, ib. 330, 331; the destruction of the arts, 4. 421; influence of, on the state, ib. 422 A [cp. Laws 4. 705; 5. 729 A]; the ‘sinews of war,’ ibid.; all-powerful in oligarchies and timocracies, 8. 548 A, 551 B, 553, 562 A; an impediment to virtue, ib. 550 E [cp. Laws 5. 728 A; 742 E; 8. 831, 836 A]; should only be acquired to a moderate amount, 9. 591 E [cp. Laws 7. 801 B]: —the blind god of wealth (Pluto), 8. 554 B: —Wealthy, the, everywhere hostile to the poor, 4. 423 A; 8. 551 E [cp. Laws 5. 736 A]; flattered by them, 5. 465 C; the wealthy and the wise, 6. 489 B; plundered by the multitude in democracies, 8. 564, 565.Read in context ›
Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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