The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
Get money first; virtue comes after.
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)