You know, what the world asks is specific and literal. It is countable. It is numerical. It is nameable. Once you pay it, everything else–which is most of life–is yours.
Most people fail, across sometimes long lifetimes, to realize how much intangible wealth they were born with, and how easy it is to create more.
Caesar has no interest in your soul (or did not until Communism). Buy him off cheap. He will never know or care.