Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.