“For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.”
For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world — the stoic-inflected wisdom: human existence begins and ends in material nakedness (gymnos). Nothing is portable beyond this life; therefore acquisitiveness is absurd.
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