430.--In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils, though no longer for the pleasures. ["The youth of friendship is better than its old age." --Hazlitt's Characteristics, 229.] 431.--Nothing prevents our being unaffected so much as our desire to seem so. 432.--To praise good actions heartily is in some measure to take part in them. 433.--The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. ["Nemo alienae virtuti invidet qui satis confidet suae." --Cicero In Marc Ant.] 434.--When our friends have deceived us we owe them but indifference to the tokens of their friendship, yet for their misfortunes we always owe them pity. 435.--Luck and temper rule the world. 436.--It is far easier to know men than to know man. 437.--We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them. 438.--There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits received, but which also, by making a return to our friends as payment, renders them indebted to us. ["And understood not that a grateful mind, By owing owes not, but is at once Indebted and discharged." Milton. Paradise Lost.] 439.--We should earnestly desire but few things if we clearly knew what we desired. 440.--The cause why the majority of women are so little given to friendship is, that it is insipid after having felt love. ["Those who have experienced a great passion neglect friendship, and those who have united themselves to friendship have nought to do with love."--La Bruyere. Du Coeur.] 441.--As in friendship so in love, we are often happier from ignorance than from knowledge. 442.--We try to make a virtue of vices we are loth to correct. 443.--The most violent passions give some respite, but vanity always disturbs us. 444.--Old fools are more foolish than young fools. ["Malvolio. Infirmity{,} that decays the wise{,} doth eve{r} make the better fool. Clown. God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity{,} for the better increasing of your folly."--Shakespeare. Twelfth Night{, Act I, Scene V}.] 445.--Weakness is more hostile to virtue than vice. 446.--What makes the grief of shame and jealousy so acute is that vanity cannot aid us in enduring them. 447.--Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed. [Honour has its supreme laws, to which education is bound to conform....Those things which honour forbids are more rigorously forbidden when the laws do not concur in the prohibition, and those it commands are more strongly insisted upon when they happen not to be commanded by law.--Montesquieu, {The Spirit Of Laws, }b. 4, c. ii.] 448.--A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind. 449.--When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.