red as our good qualities.

30.--We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an
excuse we say things are impossible.

31.--If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting
those of others.

32.--Jealousy lives upon doubt; and comes to an end or becomes a fury as
soon as it passes from doubt to certainty.

33.--Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away
vanity.

[See maxim 450, where the author states, what we take from our other
faults we add to our pride.]

34.--If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.

["The proud are ever most provoked by pride."--Cowper, Conversation
160.]

35.--Pride is much the same in all men, the only difference is the
method and manner of showing it.

["Pride bestowed on all a common friend."--Pope, Essay On Man, Ep. ii.,
line 273.]

36.--It would seem that nature, which has so wisely ordered the organs
of our body for our happiness, has also given us pride to spare us the
mortification of knowing our imperfections.

37.--Pride has a larger part than goodness in our remonstrances with
those who commit faults, and we reprove them not so much to correct as
to persuade them that we ourselves are free from faults.

38.--We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our
fears.

["The reason why the Cardinal (Mazarin) deferred so long to grant the
favours he had promised, was because he was persuaded that hope was much
more capable of keeping men to their duty than gratitude."--Fragments
Historiques. Racine.]

39.--Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of
characters; even that of disinterestedness.

40.--Interest blinds some and makes some see.

41.--Those who apply themselves too closely to little things often
become incapable of great things.

42.--We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

43.--A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind
endeavours to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards
another.

44.--Strength and weakness of mind are mis-named; they are really only
the good or happy arrangement of our bodily organs.

45.--The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of
Fortune.

46.--The attachment or indifference which philosophers have shown to
life is only the style of their self love, about which we can no more
dispute than of that of the palate or of the choi