Use the passage to answer the question. All goes wrong when, starved for lack of anything good in their own lives, men turn to public affairs hoping to snatch from thence the ha…

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Use the passage to answer the question.

All goes wrong when, starved for lack of anything good in their own lives, men turn to public affairs hoping to snatch from thence the happiness they hunger for. They set about fighting for power and this . . . conflict ruins them and their country. The life of true philosophy is the only one that looks down upon offices of state. —Plato The Republic
Based on this passage, with which of the following statements would Plato agree?

People who seek public office cannot be trusted to act for the common good.

Philosophers should not hold public office because they do not respect it.

Power is best left in the hands of the aristocracy because they know how to use it.

Citizens are the best judges of who should rule over them.