"World's fame?
World's wealth?
Will these things make you enjoy life?
You will perhaps say yes.

I tell you no.

Laurels of earth's growing fade; gold of earth's getting is good for a time, but it palls quickly.

Suppose a man rich enough to purchase all the treasures of the world--what then?
He must die and leave them.

Suppose a poet or musician so famous that all nations know and love him: he too must die, and go where nations exist no longer.