33.--The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be
born without envy.

["Nemo alienae virtuti invidet qui satis confidet suae." --Cicero In
Marc Ant.]

434.--When our friends have deceived us we owe them but indifference to
the tokens of their friendship, yet for their misfortunes we always owe
them pity.

435.--Luck and temper rule the world.

436.--It is far easier to know men than to know man.

437.--We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but
by the use he makes of them.

438.--There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases
us from benefits received, but which also, by making a return to our
friends as payment, renders them indebted to us.

["And understood not that a grateful mind, By owing owes not, but is at
once Indebted and discharged." Milton. Paradise Lost.]

439.--We should earnestly desire but few things if we clearly knew what
we desired.

440.--The cause why the majority of women are so little given to
friendship is, that it is insipid after having felt love.

["Those who have experienced a great passion neglect friendship, and
those who have united themselves to friendship have nought to do with
love."--La Bruyere. Du Coeur.]

441.--As in friendship so in love, we are often happier from ignorance
than from knowledge.

442.--We try to make a virtue of vices we are loth to correct.

443.--The most violent passions give some respite, but vanity always
disturbs us.

444.--Old fools are more foolish than young fools.

["Malvolio. Infirmity{,} that decays the wise{,} doth eve{r} make the
better fool. Clown. God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity{,} for the
better increasing of your folly."--Shakespeare. Twelfth Night{, Act I,
Scene V}.]

445.--Weakness is more hostile to virtue than vice.

446.--What makes the grief of shame and jealousy so acute is that vanity
cannot aid us in enduring them.

447.--Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed.

[Honour has its supreme laws, to which education is bound to
conform....Those things which honour forbids are more rigorously
forbidden when the laws do not concur in the prohibition, and those
it commands are more strongly insisted upon when they happen not to be
commanded by law.--Montesquieu, {The Spirit Of Laws, }b. 4, c. ii.]

448.--A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in
guiding an ill-trained mind.

449.--When fortu