“Knowledge is the food of the soul; and we must take care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when he praises what he sells, like the dealers wholesale or retail who sell the food of the body; for they praise indiscriminately all their goods, without knowing what are really beneficial or hurtful.”
313c, Benjamin Jowett, trans.
Protagoras
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Plato 80
Classical Greek philosopher -427–-347 BCRelated quotes

“He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.”
Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. III.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)

"The Fortunate Muslim Family: Divine Solution to the Fragmented Family" (20 February 2012), lecture at the University of Malaya ( YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QaeZcV_azE)
Lectures

"How to Start a Startup" http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html, March 2005

Arabian Society In The Middle Ages, by Edward William Lane, (1883) citing Nowwájee, En-, Shems-ed-deen Moḥammad (died 1454), Ḥalbet El-Kumeyt, at footnote 167.
Latter day attributions
“What can we sell them? Not our soul.”
Hansen writing to himself in his scrapbook while pondering about industrial sponsorship in university research work, as quoted by [Peter Louis Galison and Bruce William Hevly, Big science: the growth of large-scale research, Stanford University Press, 1992, 57]