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Single Idea 242

[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / c. Wealth ]

Full Idea

The community in which neither wealth nor poverty exists will produce the finest characters.

Gist of Idea

The best people are produced where there is no excess of wealth or poverty

Source

Plato (The Laws [c.348 BCE], 679b)

Book Ref

Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.122