We work at jobs we don't like in order to buy things we don't need, so that we can impress people we don't care about. A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living. The love of money is the root of all evil. Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire. I don't know anyone who wished on his deathbed that he had spent more time at the office. This too is vanity. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.