Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.
Gold will be slave or master.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]