Dante

"There is no greater woe than the remembering in misery the happy time . . ."

--L'Inferno, Canto V

Socrates on the Good Life

"Are you not ashamed that, while you take care to acquire as much wealth as possible, with honour and glory as well, yet you take no care or thought for understanding or truth, or for the best possible state of your soul?"

--from The Apology