arises?
Yes.
Well, I said, no eyes are required in order to see how the one passes into the other.
How?
arises out of increased accumulation and increased expenditure among the citizens. The accumulation of gold in the treasury of private individuals is the ruin of timocracy; they invent illegal modes of expenditure; for what do they or their wives care about the law?
Yes, indeed.
And then one, seeing another grow rich, seeks to rival him, and thus the great mass of the citizens become lovers of money.
Likely enough.
As riches increase, virtue decreases: the one is honoured, the other despised; the one cultivated, the other neglected. And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of