ht not to be
jealous when we have cause to be so. No persons escape causing jealousy
who are worthy of exciting it.

360.--We are more humiliated by the least infidelity towards us, than by
our greatest towards others.

361.--Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with
it.

362.--Most women do not grieve so much for the death of their lovers for
love's-sake, as to show they were worthy of being beloved.

363.--The evils we do to others give us less pain than those we do to
ourselves.

364.--We well know that it is bad taste to talk of our wives; but we do
not so well know that it is the same to speak of ourselves.

365.--There are virtues which degenerate into vices when they arise from
Nature, and others which when acquired are never perfect. For example,
reason must teach us to manage our estate and our confidence, while
Nature should have given us goodness and valour.

366.--However we distrust the sincerity of those whom we talk with, we
always believe them more sincere with us than with others.

367.--There are few virtuous women who are not tired of their part.

["Every woman is at heart a rake."--Pope. Moral Essays, ii.]

368.--The greater number of good women are like concealed treasures,
safe as no one has searched for them.

369.--The violences we put upon ourselves to escape love are often more
cruel than the cruelty of those we love.

370.--There are not many cowards who know the whole of their fear.

371.--It is generally the fault of the loved one not to perceive when
love ceases.

372.--Most young people think they are natural when they are only
boorish and rude.

373.--Some tears after having deceived others deceive ourselves.

374.--If we think we love a woman for love of herself we are greatly
deceived.

375.--Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

376.--Envy is destroyed by true friendship, flirtation by true love.

377.--The greatest mistake of penetration is not to have fallen short,
but to have gone too far.

378.--We may bestow advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct.

379.--As our merit declines so also does our taste.

380.--Fortune makes visible our virtues or our vices, as light does
objects.

381.--The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is
little better than infidelity.

382.--Our actions are like the rhymed ends of blank verses (Bouts-Rimes)
where to each one put