t infinite, our knowledge is always
superficial and imperfect.

107.--One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

108.--The head cannot long play the part of the heart.

109.--Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood, age retains
its tastes by habit.

110.--Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

111.--The more we love a woman the more prone we are to hate her.

112.--The blemishes of the mind, like those of the face, increase by
age.

113.--There may be good but there are no pleasant marriages.

114.--We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and betrayed
by our friends, yet still we are often content to be thus served by
ourselves.

115.--It is as easy unwittingly to deceive oneself as to deceive others.

116.--Nothing is less sincere than the way of asking and giving advice.
The person asking seems to pay deference to the opinion of his friend,
while thinking in reality of making his friend approve his opinion and
be responsible for his conduct. The person giving the advice returns the
confidence placed in him by eager and disinterested zeal, in doing which
he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

["I have often thought how ill-natured a maxim it was which on many
occasions I have heard from people of good understanding, 'That as to
what related to private conduct no one was ever the better for advice.'
But upon further examination I have resolved with myself that the maxim
might be admitted without any violent prejudice to mankind. For in
the manner advice was generally given there was no reason I thought to
wonder it should be so ill received, something there was which strangely
inverted the case, and made the giver to be the only gainer. For by what
I could observe in many occurrences of our lives, that which we called
giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom
at another's expense. On the other side to be instructed or to receive
advice on the terms usually prescribed to us was little better than
tamely to afford another the occasion of raising himself a character
from our defects."--Lord Shaftesbury, Characteristics, i., 153.]

117.--The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares
that we know are set for us. We are never so easily deceived as when
trying to deceive.

118.--The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

119.--We become so accustomed to disguis