“For what profit is there in acquiring anything temporal or transitory in this world–whether it be money, or gorging oneself on food, or achieving hight honors from your fellow human beings. Are not all things smoke and wind? Do not all things pass on in a moment? And woe to those who want to hang on to passing things, for they pass with them!…My brothers, those who seek such things sell them.”
Augustine (354-430) Bishop of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John 10.6.1-3. ACCS IVa 101. FC 78:216-217.