I was transcribing citations from books to local fortune files this
morning and found that one from `L'amante imperfetto' of Emidio
Clementi (WARNING: possible spoiler!):

 «Nella sicurezza si muore, è l'incerto il vantaggio dei vivi.»

That maybe can be translated as:

 «In the sureness we die, it is the uncertain the advantage of the
  living ones.»