“What win I if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?”

—  William Shakespeare , book The Rape of Lucrece

Source: The Rape of Lucrece

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