A comparative adjective is used when we compare and contrast two different objects. The adjective is either connected with the suffix -er, or add the word more. From the given sentence above, the comparative adjective used is "more forceful". The comparison is between the mighty water spirit and any creature of land or sea.
I think this quote means in this life nothing is worth turning back one the ones you love in this world.
We can deduce here that the line from the passage that best supports the idea that money corrupts government is: "[Men] honor and look up to the rich man, and make a ruler of him."
<h3>What is a main idea?</h3>
Main idea actually refers to the central lesson or important message that an excerpt, passage, a line or a story is carrying. It refers to the message that the author wishes to pass across to the audience.
We see here that the passage that completes the question is:
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.
Thus, the line that best supports the idea that that money corrupts government is "[Men] honor and look up to the rich man, and make a ruler of him."
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