We are lovers of the beautiful, yet with economy, and we cultivate the intellect without effeminacy. Wealth we employ rather for use than for show, and we set more store by a confession of poverty than by a vaunt of riches.
Athenian statesman
From Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War', Pericles' Funeral Oration. This statement, while idealizing Athenian values, could be seen as subtly critical of other city-states or individuals who valued ostentatious wealth or lacked intellectual pursuits, thus being divisive in a broader Greek context.
431 BC (approximate, as recorded by Thucydides)
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