For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly.

She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her..