Octavius 16.5

And since my brother has burst out that he takes it ill, is angry, indignant, and pained that the illiterate, the poor, the unskilled should discuss heavenly things, let him know that all human beings, without distinction of age, sex, or rank, are created capable and fit for reason and understanding, and that they have wisdom not acquired by fortune but implanted by nature. Indeed, even the philosophers themselves, or any others who have gone down in memory as discoverers of the arts, before they won a famous name by the skill of their minds, were counted common, unlearned, half-naked. So true is it that the rich, bound up in their wealth, have been accustomed to look up to gold rather than to heaven, while our kind of men, the poor, have both discovered wisdom and handed on its teaching to others. From this it is clear that talent is not given by wealth nor acquired by study, but is begotten with the very formation of the mind.