I try to persuade you, whether younger or older, to give less priority, and devote less zeal, to the care of your bodies or of your money than to the care of your soul and trying to make it as good as it can be. What I say to you is this It's not from money that excellence comes, but from excellence money and the other things, all of them, come to be good for human beings, whether in private or in public life

The Republic by Plato