Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.