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are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?
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Plato (Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo)
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What has caused my reputation is none other than a certain kind of wisdom. What kind of wisdom? Human wisdom, perhaps.
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Plato (Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo)
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wealth and the like, are at times good and at times harmful. Just as for the rest of the soul the direction of wisdom makes things beneficial, but harmful if directed by folly,
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Plato (Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Hackett Classics))
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Then you have sufficient indication, he said, that any man whom you see resenting death was not a lover of wisdom but a lover of the body, and also a lover of wealth or of honors, either or both.
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Plato (Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo)