ἄμεινον ἔφη ἐπαίτην ἢ ἀπαίδευτον εἶναι: οἱ μὲν γὰρ χρημάτων, οἱ δ᾽ ἀνθρωπισμοῦ δέονται.
It's better, he said, to be a beggar than to be uneducated; for the one lacks money, the other lacks humanity.
--Aristippus, quoted in Diogenes Laertius, "Lives of Eminent Philosophers," Book 2, Chapter 8.