• To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

    Socrates: To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .
    "Apology". 23a-c. By Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett,