Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.
As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.
Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.