The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.