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Then Antisthenes got up and in a very argumentative fashion interrogated him. “Where do you think men harbour their righteousness, Callias, in their souls or in their purses?”“In their souls,” he replied.“So you make their souls more righteous by putting money into their purses?”“I surely do.”“How?”“Because they know that they have the wherewithal to buy the necessities of life, and so they are reluctant to expose themselves to the hazards of crime.”
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