The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.