Tuesday, August 01, 2023
Plutocracy
Cicero, On the Republic 1.34.51 (Scipio speaking; tr. Niall Rudd):
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Money, name, and property, if divorced from good sense and skill in living one's own life and directing the lives of others, lapse into total degradation and supercilious insolence. And indeed there is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
nam divitiae nomen opes vacuae consilio et vivendi atque aliis imperandi modo dedecoris plenae sunt et insolentis superbiae, nec ulla deformior species est civitatis quam illa in qua opulentissimi optimi putantur.
