313.--How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ["Old men who yet retain the memory of things past, and forget how often they have told them, are most tedious companions."--Montaigne, {Essays, Book I, Chapter IX}.] 314.--The extreme delight we take in talking of ourselves should warn us that it is not shared by those who listen. 315.--What commonly hinders us from showing the recesses of our heart to our friends, is not the distrust we have of them, but that we have of ourselves. 316.--Weak persons cannot be sincere. 317.--'Tis a small misfortune to oblige an ungrateful man; but it is unbearable to be obliged by a scoundrel. 318.--We may find means to cure a fool of his folly, but there are none to set straight a cross-grained spirit. 319.--If we take the liberty to dwell on their faults we cannot long preserve the feelings we should hold towards our friends and benefactors. 320.--To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to reproach them with impunity. ["Praise undeserved is satire in disguise," quoted by Pope from a poem which has not survived, "The Garland," by Mr. Broadhurst. "In some cases exaggerated or inappropriate praise becomes the most severe satire."-- Scott, Woodstock.] 321.--We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire. 322.--Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. 323.--Our wisdom is no less at the mercy of Fortune than our goods. 324.--There is more self-love than love in jealousy. 325.--We often comfort ourselves by the weakness of evils, for which reason has not the strength to console us. 326.--Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour itself. ["No," says a commentator, "Ridicule may do harm, but it cannot dishonour; it is vice which confers dishonour."] 327.--We own to small faults to persuade others that we have not great ones. 328.--Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. 329.--We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery --we only dislike the method. ["{But} when I tell him he hates flatter{ers}, He says he does, being then most flattered." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar {,Act II, Scene I, Decius}.] 330.--We pardon in the degree that we love. 331.--It is more difficult to be faithful to a mistress when one is happy, than when we are ill-treated by her. [Si qua volet regnare diu contemnat amantem.--Ovid, Amores, ii. 19.] 332.--Women do not know all their powers of flirtation. 333.--Women cannot be completely severe unless they hate. 334.--Women can less easily resign flirtations than love. 335.--In love deceit almost always goes further than mistrust. 336.--There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy. 337.--There are certain good qualities as there are senses, and those who want them can neither perceive nor understand them.