“I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.”

—  Themistocles

As quoted in The Quotable Intellectual (2010) edited by P. Archer, p. 152 http://books.google.com/books?id=QnDvIsNKNIwC

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