Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men—lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain? - Plato

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.