For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own life?
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
"But plainly, unrighteous gain is pleasure and pain, toil and fear; and, to speak comprehensively, the passions of the soul, the present of which is delightful, the future vexatious. "For what is the profit "it is said, "if you gain the world and lose the soul? "
