This from Naumachius also pleases them:
"Gold and silver are but dust, like the stones that lie scattered on the pebbly beach, or on the margins of the rivers."
On the other hand, they censure these verses of Euripides:
"Plutus is the god for wise men; all else is mere folly and at the same time a deception in words."
So in like manner these lines from Theognis:
"O Plutus, thou most beautiful and placid god! whilst I have thee, however bad I am, I can be regarded as good."
They also blame Aristodemus, the Spartan, for these words:
"Money makes the man; no one who is poor is either good or honoured."
And they rebuke these songs of Timocles:
"Money is the life and soul of mortal men. He who has not heaped up riches for himself wanders like a dead man amongst the living."