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102.  Laws 634A.

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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.

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104.  Cf. preceding notes; also Rep. 421D-E; Laws 744D.

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105.  Bonar (Philosophy and Political Economy, pp. 13 f.) criticizes Rep. 400-402 for not seeing that unlimited wealth is necessary for the realization of the highest art and beauty.

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106.  Plato also emphasizes this, Laws 743E, 870B: οὐ χρὴ πλουτεῖν ζητεῖν τὸν εὐδαίμονα ἐσόμενον, ἀλλὰ δικαίως πλουτεῖν καὶ σωφρόνως; 660E; though he implies that unlimited wealth is necessarily evil.

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107.  Rep. 552B-D; cf. Robin, op. cit., p. 243, n. 1, on κηφήν.

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108.  In Mun. Pul., III, 91 (Vol. XVII, 213), he makes Circe’s swine a type of false consumption; cf. Fors Clav., Letter 38 (Vol. XXVIII, 30 ff.); Mun. Pul., Pref., 16 (Vol. XVII, 139 f.); Queen of the Air, III, 124 ff. (Vol. XIX, 404 ff.); Pol. Econ. of Art, I, 48 ff. (Vol. XVI, 47 ff.); Unto This Last, IV, 76 (Vol. XVII, 102); Mill also attacked this idea.

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109.  Unto This Last, II, 40 (Vol. XVII, 56); cf. also Mun. Pul., II, 54 (Vol. XVII, 178 f.).

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