I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Pope John Paul I expresses a desire to live simply without accumulating money.
- In plain terms
- I want to arrive with no money and leave with no money.
- What can you take from it?
- We enter and leave life without material wealth.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you carry that money cannot buy?
- How will you leave the world?
Another view
It does not address practical needs of living in a material world.
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