which was, "That men, however fortune may smile upon them, could never be said to be happy till they had been seen to pass over the last day of their lives," by reason of the uncertainty and mutability of human things, which, upon very light and trivial occasions, are subject to be totally changed into a quite contrary condition.
Hala ere, aita saindu bat sinetsi behar bada: Malam mortem non facit, nisi quod sequitur mortem.