Even if all the greatest minds in history worked together on this puzzle, they could never fully express their amazement at how blind people are. Think about it: no one would let a stranger take over their property. If there's even a small dispute about where the property line is, people will grab rocks and clubs to fight. Yet these same people let others invade their lives. Worse — they actually invite others in to take over their time. You'll never find someone who wants to give away their money to everyone. But everyone gives away their life to anyone who asks. People carefully guard their wealth from being wasted. But when it comes to wasting time — the one thing they should protect most — they throw it around like it's worthless.
Were all the brightest intellects of all time to employ themselves on this one subject, they never could sufficiently express their wonder at this blindness of men's minds: men will not allow any one to establish himself upon their estates, and upon the most trifling dispute about the measuring of boundaries, they betake themselves to stones and cudgels: yet they allow others to encroach upon their lives, nay, they themselves actually lead others in to take possession of them. You cannot find any one who wants to distribute his money; yet among how many people does every one distribute his life? men covetously guard their property from waste, but when it comes to waste of time, they are most prodigal of that of which it would become them to be sparing.