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 1 Intro| deserving of attention. (1) That wealth depends upon the need of
 2 Intro|    writer. (2) The resolution of wealth into its simplest implements
 3 Intro|        refined thought. (3) That wealth is relative to circumstances
 4 Intro| comprehended under the notion of wealth, also touches a question
 5 Text |       things which go to make up wealth, slaves and horses innumerable,
 6 Text |       trivial matters, but about wealth and virtue, which are deemed
 7 Text |         all the King of Persia’s wealth and to be ill. And this
 8 Text |        that men set health above wealth, else they would never choose
 9 Text |        urge them to consider how wealth may be acquired, since by
10 Text |      such moment, that is, about wealth, and not merely whether
11 Text |        And if the wicked man has wealth and is willing to spend
12 Text |         his former opinion about wealth. I observed his vexation,
13 Text |        now you have agreed that (wealth) is a good to some and an
14 Text |         enquire what constitutes wealth; for unless you know this,
15 Text |         what, in his opinion, is wealth.~ERASISTRATUS: Indeed, Socrates,
16 Text |           I have no notion about wealth beyond that which men commonly
17 Text |    commonly have. I suppose that wealth is a quantity of money (
18 Text |  ownership of it does not confer wealth; just as the standard of
19 Text |          the Lacedaemonians find wealth in iron and we do not, can
20 Text |      Carthaginian coinage is not wealth in our eyes, for we could
21 Text |        is useful to us, then, is wealth, and what is useless to
22 Text |          is useless to us is not wealth?~But how do you mean, Socrates?
23 Text |      useful and yet they are not wealth.~SOCRATES: Clearly we have
24 Text |   answered the question, What is wealth? That wealth must be useful,
25 Text |   question, What is wealth? That wealth must be useful, to be wealth
26 Text |     wealth must be useful, to be wealth at all,—thus much is acknowledged
27 Text |         what particular thing is wealth, if not all things? Let
28 Text |      seeking. What is the use of wealth, and for what purpose has
29 Text |        that whatever constitutes wealth must be useful, and that
30 Text |         must be useful, and that wealth is one class of useful things;
31 Text |          things which constitute wealth? For all things probably
32 Text |        we should have no need of wealth? can we give an answer?
33 Text |         no use in this so-called wealth, if no one, that is, had
34 Text |       which now make us wish for wealth in order that we may satisfy
35 Text |   therefore if the possession of wealth is useful in ministering
36 Text |        to us, we should not need wealth, and possibly there would
37 Text |        would be no such thing as wealth.~ERYXIAS: Clearly not.~SOCRATES:
38 Text |        is, as would appear, that wealth is what is useful to this
39 Text |         no longer be regarded as wealth, because they are useless,
40 Text |   useless, whereas that would be wealth which enabled us to obtain
41 Text |       and similar things are not wealth. But I am very strongly
42 Text |        are useless to us are not wealth, and that the money which
43 Text |        if by them we can procure wealth.~SOCRATES: And how would
44 Text |      things useful, the arts are wealth for the same reason as gold
45 Text |         possession of them gives wealth. Yet a little while ago
46 Text |          are supposed to make up wealth are only useful to the person
47 Text |        only will they seem to be wealth. It appears, however, that
48 Text |          things which seem to be wealth are not real wealth? For
49 Text |        to be wealth are not real wealth? For I have been exceedingly
50 Text |          if, again, we obtain by wealth the aid of medicine, shall
51 Text |    medicine, shall we not regard wealth as useful for virtue?~CRITIAS:
52 Text |         the instruments by which wealth is procured?~CRITIAS: Certainly.~
53 Text |        think that a man may gain wealth by bad and disgraceful means,
54 Text |         are useful and a part of wealth or not. But what shall we
55 Text |       the wants of the body; for wealth appears useful towards that