Of Fortune.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Of Fortune.

Alexander was wont to say, "Were I not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."

Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great.

When the candles are out all women are fair.[739:2]

Conjugal Precepts.

Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.[739:3]

Whether 't was rightfully said, Live Concealed.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.[739:4]