It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.