e ourselves to others that at
last we are disguised to ourselves.

["Those who quit their proper character{,} to assume what does not
belong to them, are{,} for the greater part{,} ignorant both of the
character they leave{,} and of the character they assume."--Burke,
{Reflections On The Revolution In France, (1790), Paragraph 19}.]

{The translators' incorrectly cite Thoughts On The Cause Of The Present
Discontents.}

120.--We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed
motive.

121.--We frequently do good to enable us with impunity to do evil.

122.--If we conquer our passions it is more from their weakness than
from our strength.

123.--If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

124.--The most deceitful persons spend their lives in blaming deceit, so
as to use it on some great occasion to promote some great interest.

125.--The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally
happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves
lay themselves open to attack in another.

["With that low cunning which in fools supplies, And amply, too, the
place of being wise." Churchill, Rosciad, 117.]

126.--Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

127.--The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than
others.

128.--Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is
the most substantial cleverness.

129.--It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived
by cunning men.

130.--Weakness is the only fault which cannot be cured.

131.--The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to
love. [------"Faciunt graviora coactae Imperio sexus minimumque libidine
peccant." Juvenal, Sat. vi., 134.]

132.--It is far easier to be wise for others than to be so for oneself.

[Hence the proverb, "A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his
client."]

133.--The only good examples are those, that make us see the absurdity
of bad originals.

134.--We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those
that we affect to have.

135.--We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from
others.

136.--There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard
it spoken of.

137.--When not prompted by vanity we say little.

138.--A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

["Montaigne's vanity