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