PI FFÀ LI QUATRINE CI VO' TRE CCOSE: N'ONZE DI JUDIZIE, NA LIBBRE DI FORTUNE E NU RUOTELE DI MMALA CUSCIENZE.
(THREE THINGS ARE NEEDED TO MAKE MONEY: ONE OUNCE OF WISDOM, ONE POUND OF LUCK, AND A BUNDLE OF GUILTY CONSCIENCE)
TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS AND TO GET RICH YOU NEED MORE AN OPEN MIND THAN COMMON SENSE AND LUCK.
QUANTA VUOGLIE RITE QUANNA MI MORE, CA VÈ LI CRIDITURE E NIN MI TROVE.
(I WILL LAUGH SO MUCH WHEN I DIE; MY CREDITORS WILL COME BUT I WILL NOT BE THERE)
CERTAINLY MY CREDITORS WILL NOT BE HAPPY OF MY DEATH BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COLLECT THE MONEY THEY HAD LENT ME, WHILE I (SMALL CONSOLATION) WILL BE HAPPY FOR THIS. THE PROVERB WAS OFTEN QUOTED WHEN ONE GOT THE BEST IN A LEGAL QUARREL, SOON TO REALIZE THAT THE LOSS WAS GREATER THAN THE GAIN.
