nearly all are creatures of opportunities.

471.--In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others
they love love.

["In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all her others what
she loves is love." {--Lord Byron, }Don Juan, Canto iii., stanza 3. "We
truly love once, the first time; the subsequent passions are more or
less involuntary." La Bruyere: Du Coeur.]

472.--Pride as the other passions has its follies. We are ashamed to own
we are jealous, and yet we plume ourselves in having been and being able
to be so.

473.--However rare true love is, true friendship is rarer.

["It is more common to see perfect love than real friendship."--La
Bruyere. Du Coeur.]

474.--There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.

475.--The desire to be pitied or to be admired often forms the greater
part of our confidence.

476.--Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

477.--The same firmness that enables us to resist love enables us to
make our resistance durable and lasting. So weak persons who are always
excited by passions are seldom really possessed of any.

478.--Fancy does not enable us to invent so many different
contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

479.--It is only people who possess firmness who can possess true
gentleness. In those who appear gentle it is generally only weakness,
which is readily converted into harshness.

480.--Timidity is a fault which is dangerous to blame in those we desire
to cure of it.

481.--Nothing is rarer than true good nature, those who think they have
it are generally only pliant or weak.

482.--The mind attaches itself by idleness and habit to whatever is easy
or pleasant. This habit always places bounds to our knowledge, and no
one has ever yet taken the pains to enlarge and expand his mind to the
full extent of its capacities.

483.--Usually we are more satirical from vanity than malice.

484.--When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is
proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

485.--Those who have had great passions often find all their lives made
miserable in being cured of them.

486.--More persons exist without self-love than without envy.

["I do not believe that there is a human creature in his senses arrived
at maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by
this passion (envy) in good earnest, and yet I n