“Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor and give no attention to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?”
Plato, The Apology
"What is the chief end of man? – to get rich. In what way? dishonestly if he can; honestly if he must. Who is God, the one only and true? Money is God." Mark Twain, 1871