WOMEN'S FRIENDSHIPS.--Women can enter into friendship with a man perfectly well; but in order to maintain it the aid of a little physical antipathy is perhaps required. 391. ENNUI.--Many people, especially women, never feel ennui because they have never learnt to work properly. 392. AN ELEMENT OF LOVE.--In all feminine love something of maternal love also comes to light. 393. UNITY OF PLACE AND DRAMA.--If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent. 394. THE USUAL CONSEQUENCES OF MARRIAGE.--All intercourse which does not elevate a person, debases him, and _vice versa;_ hence men usually sink a little when they marry, while women are somewhat elevated. Over-intellectual men require marriage in proportion as they are opposed to it as to a repugnant medicine. 395. LEARNING TO COMMAND.--Children of unpretentious families must be taught to command, just as much as other children must be taught to obey. 396. WANTING TO BE IN LOVE.--Betrothed couples who have been matched by convenience often exert themselves _to fall in love,_ to avoid the reproach of cold, calculating expediency. In the same manner those who become converts to Christianity for their advantage exert themselves to become genuinely pious; because the religious cast of countenance then becomes easier to them. 397. No STANDING STILL IN LOVE.--A musician who _loves_ the slow _tempo_ will play the same pieces ever more slowly. There is thus no standing still in any love. 398. MODESTY.--Women's modesty usually increases with their beauty.[1] 399. MARRIAGE ON A GOOD BASIS.--A marriage in which each wishes to realise an individual aim by means of the other will stand well; for instance, when the woman wishes to become famous through the man and the man beloved through the woman. 400. PROTEUS-NATURE.--Through love women actually become what they appear to be in the imagination of their lovers. 401. To LOVE AND TO POSSESS.--As a rule women love a distinguished man to the extent that they wish to possess him exclusively. They would gladly keep him under lock and key, if their vanity did not forbid, but vanity demands that he should also appear distinguished before others. 402. THE TEST OF A GOOD MARRIAGE.--The goodness of a marriage is proved by the fact that it can stand an "exception." 403. BRINGING ANYONE ROUND TO ANYTHING.--One may make any person so weak and weary by disquietude, anxiety, and excess of work or thought that he no longer resists anything that appears complicated, but gives way to it,--diplomatists and women know this. 404. PROPRIETY AND HONESTY.--Those girls who mean to trust exclusively to their youthful charms for their provision in life, and whose cunning is further prompted by worldly mothers, have just the same aims as courtesans, only they are wiser and less honest. 405.