For boundless is the light of truth, boundless its power. The lie swiftly betrays and ruins the liar. For in this way the food of the mind is digested and, as it were, turned into mind. Then have very few thoughts, and those of a kind that very few think. Shrewdness and discrimination are needed, for the hare lies hidden in a small clump of grass.
Evils lie everywhere, while the good is reduced to narrow limits.
But you fare well if you feed it, not on great quantity, but on the best quality. Where wisdom abounds, there is very little work for dice. Where there is very little wisdom, chance dominates most things. He does not rejoice in the promises of fortune, for she is faithless even to her own, whom, without honor, she has exalted to the highest summit of honor. For she rejoices in the reversal game between height and depth, and delights in alternate hap and mishap.