338.--When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate. 339.--We only appreciate our good or evil in proportion to our self-love. 340.--The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their reason. ["Women have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit, but for solid reasoning and good sense I never knew one in my life that had it, and who reasoned and acted consequentially for four and twenty hours together."--Lord Chesterfield, Letter 129.] 341.--The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age. 342.--The accent of our native country dwells in the heart and mind as well as on the tongue. 343.--To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune. 344.--Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers. 345.--Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves. 346.--If a woman's temper is beyond control there can be no control of the mind or heart. 347.--We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us. ["That was excellently observed, say I, when I read an author when his opinion agrees with mine."--Swift, Thoughts On Various Subjects.] 348.--When one loves one doubts even what one most believes. 349.--The greatest miracle of love is to eradicate flirtation. 350.--Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are. ["I could pardon all his (Louis XI.'s) deceit, but I cannot forgive his supposing me capable of the gross folly of being duped by his professions."--Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward.] 351.--We have much trouble to break with one, when we no longer are in love. 352.--We almost always are bored with persons with whom we should not be bored. 353.--A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast. 354.--There are certain defects which well mounted glitter like virtue itself. 355.--Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. 356.--Usually we only praise heartily those who admire us. 357.--Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt. 358.--Humility is the true proof of Christian virtues; without it we retain all our faults, and they are only covered by pride to hide them from others, and often from ourselves. 359.--Infidelities should extinguish love, and we ought not to be jealous when we have cause to be so. No persons escape causing jealousy who are worthy of exciting it. 360.--We are more humiliated by the least infidelity towards us, than by our greatest towards others. 361.--Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. 362.--Most women do not grieve so much for the death of their lovers for love's-sake, as to show they were worthy of being beloved.