This comes from his 8th letter. It’s a view that can help maximize your happiness. Unfortunately society has it reversed which causes most of our problems.
Plato argues:
“Accept public laws and beliefs that you think will not arouse your desires and turn your thoughts toward money making and wealth. Of the three goods – soul/mind, body and wealth – your laws and public beliefs must give the highest honor to the excellence of the soul/mind, the second place to that of the body, as subordinate to the excellence of the soul/mind and the third and lowest rank to wealth, since it serves both body and soul/mind. The sacred tradition that ranks them in this order might rightly be made a positive law among you, since it makes truly happy those who live by it; whereas the doctrine that the rich are the happy ones is a foolish saying of the ignorant, a miserable belief in itself, bringing misery upon all who follow it.”
Presently our education is focused on the least important of the goods and neglects the most important.
How can we, as members of the public, work to order things as Plato suggests? What prevents our society from following his path?
Think about the problems we face today and how things would change if we took his advice.
Moralities and the Moral Republic 
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