[95]. Laws 742E, especially πλουσίους δ᾽ αὒ σφόδρα καὶ ἀγαθοὺς ἀδύνατον. For the modern application of this doctrine, cf. infra; cf. also 743A, C; Rep. 550E, 551A.
[96]. Rep. 422; cf. 372E ff. on the φλεγμαίνουσα state.
[97]. 373E; Phaedo 66C. Compare the modern doctrine that lasting peace is impossible under the present economic system.
[98]. Laws 744D: διάστασις; also a basal idea of the Republic.
[99]. This is the spirit of the Republic throughout, but cf. especially 369C-374D, and p. 25, n. 7.
[100]. Laws 736E: καὶ πενίαν ἡγουμένους εἶναι μὴ τὸ τὴν οὐσίαν ἐλάττω ποιεῖν, ἀλλὸ τὸ τὴν ἀπληστίαν πλείω. Cf. infra on Xenophon for similar ideas. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, chapter on “Everlasting Yea”: “The fraction of life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your numerator as by lessening your denominator.” Ruskin, Time and Tide, II, 5 ff. (Vol. XVII, 319 ff.); cf. 320, n. 1, for other references. Thoreau: “A man is wealthy in proportion to the number of things he can let alone”—an overemphasized truth.
[101]. So Socrates (Apol. 41E, 29D-E) and Jesus (Matt. 6:33).
[102]. Laws 634A.
[103]. Rep. 329E-330A, 330D-331B; cf. also the prayer of Phaedrus 279C: τὸ δὲ χρυσοῦ πλῆθος εἴη μοι ὅσον μήτε ἅγειν δύναιτ᾽ ἄλλος ἢ ὁ σώφρων; Laws 679B; Gorg. 477E: τίς οὖν τέχνη πενίας ἀππαλλάττει; οὐ χρηματιστική; cf. also 452C.
[104]. Cf. preceding notes; also Rep. 421D-E; Laws 744D.