What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
God helps him who strives hard.
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.