The accumulation of gold in the treasury of private individuals is the ruin of timocracy [a state where only property owners can participate in government]; they invent illegal modes of expenditure; for what do they or their wives care about the law? . . . . And then one, seeing another grow rich, seeks to rival him, and thus the great mass of the citizens become lovers of money. . . . And so at last, instead of loving contention and glory, men become lovers of trade and money; they honor and look up to the rich man, and make a ruler of him, and dishonor the poor man. –The Republic,
Plato

Which line from the passage best supports the idea that money corrupts government?

“For what do they or their wives care about the law?”
“The great mass of the citizens become lovers of money.”
“Instead of loving contention and glory, men become lovers of trade.”
“[Men] honor and look up to the rich man, and make a ruler of him.”

-The answer is D.