The poet said: "Audentes fortuna juvat"....
It is on the darers, not on the audacious, that Fortune almost always smiled.

The audacious may be unguarded.

The darer thinks first, acts afterwards.

There is the difference! Dick Sand was _audens_.
At fifteen he already knew how to take a part, and to carry out to the end whatever his resolute spirit had decided upon.

His manner, at once spirited and serious, attracted attention.