No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

The line underscores the irreversibility of time and experience: wealth and power can purchase many comforts, but they cannot undo choices, erase consequences, or restore lost opportunities. Framed as a moral aphorism, it punctures the fantasy that money can solve every human problem, insisting that the past remains beyond transaction. The quote also carries a cautionary edge—since one cannot “buy back” what has been done, the only meaningful agency lies in present conduct and future action. In a Wildean register, it reads as a paradoxical reminder that the most valuable things—time, innocence, reputation, love—are precisely those least convertible into cash.