394.

There are few cowards who know the extent of their fear.

395.

The violence we do ourselves to prevent falling in love is often more cruel than the severity of the loved object.

396.

It is almost always the fault of the lover not to know when he is no longer loved.

397.

We always dread the sight of the person we love when we have been coquetting elsewhere.

398.

There are certain tears which often deceive ourselves, after having deceived others.

399.

If a man fancies he loves his mistress for her own sake, he is much mistaken.

400.

We ought to console ourselves for our faults when we have strength of mind to confess them.

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401.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, and coquetry by true love.

402.

The greatest fault in penetration is not the not reaching the mark, but overshooting it.

403.

We give advice, but we do not inspire con duct.

404.

When our merit gives way, our taste gives way also.

405.

Fortune displays our virtues and our vices, as light makes all objects apparent.

402. "It was both pleasantly and wisely said by a nuncio of the Pope, returning from a certain nation where he served as lieger, whose opinion being asked touching the appointment of one to go in his place, he wished that in any case they did not send one who was too wise, because no very wise man would ever imagine what they in that country were like to do. And certainly it is an error frequent for men to shoot over, and to suppose deeper ends and more compass-reaches than are."-BACON, Advancement of Learning, book ii.

406.

The constraint we put on ourselves to remain faithful to a person we love is scarcely better than an infidelity.

407.

Our actions are like "bouts rimes," which every one makes refer to whatever he pleases.

408.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and of making our faults appear in the light we wish them, constitute a great part of our sincerity.

409.

We ought only to be astonished that we are still able to be astonished.

410.

Men are almost equally difficult to satisfy when they have very much love, and when they have scarcely any left.

408. "Les hommes parlent de manière sur ce qui les regarde qu'ils n'avouent d'eux-mêmes que de petits défauts, et encore ceux qui supposent en leur personnes de beaux talens ou de grandes qualités."-LA BRUYERE, De l'homme.

411.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to

be so.

412.

A fool has not stuff enough to be good.

413.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

414.

What renders the vanity of others insupportable, is that it wounds our own.

415.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

416.

Fortune never appears so blind as she does to those on whom she confers no favors.

414. See No. 35.

"Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain we should save our brethren, if we would suffer our own weakness to be the measure of theirs."-BULWER LYTTON.

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417.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health-enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

418.

Rusticity is sometimes got rid of in the camp, but never at the court.

419.

A man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than all others.

420.

We are sometimes less unhappy in being deceived by those we love than in being undeceived by them.

421.

The first lover is kept a long time—when second is not taken.

422.

We have not courage to say, as a general

419. "Singuli decipere ac decipi possunt, nemo omnes, omnes neminem fefellerunt."-PLINY, Paneg.