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"I pray," said Apollonius, "that
righteousness may rule, the laws remain unbroken, the wise be poor and
others rich, but honestly"

I DISAGREE. There should be wise people who are also rich, in my opinion. The rich should be wiser, on average, to make the government more beneficial.

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Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. by Mead

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We could argue about these, e.g. Apollonius could mean that the wise would work less, and therefore they would be poor, and I would also support that the wise should work less. However, in Apollonius's approach it may still be wrong that (all) the others should be rich.