450.--Our pride is often increased by what we retrench from our other faults. ["The loss of sensual pleasures was supplied and compensated by spiritual pride."--Gibbon. Decline And Fall, chap. xv.] 451.--No fools so wearisome as those who have some wit. 452.--No one believes that in every respect he is behind the man he considers the ablest in the world. 453.--In great matters we should not try so much to create opportunities as to utilise those that offer themselves. [Yet Lord Bacon says "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."--Essays, {(1625), "Of Ceremonies and Respects"}] 454.--There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us. 455.--However disposed the world may be to judge wrongly, it far oftener favours false merit than does justice to true. 456.--Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion. 457.--We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not. 458.--Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. 459.--There are many remedies to cure love, yet none are infallible. 460.--It would be well for us if we knew all our passions make us do. 461.--Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth. 462.--The same pride which makes us blame faults from which we believe ourselves free causes us to despise the good qualities we have not. 463.--There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how superior we are to them, that we bestow on them the sign of our compassion. 464.--There exists an excess of good and evil which surpasses our comprehension. 465.--Innocence is most fortunate if it finds the same protection as crime. 466.--Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love. 467.--Vanity makes us sin more against our taste than reason. 468.--Some bad qualities form great talents. 469.--We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. 470.--All our qualities are uncertain and doubtful, both the good as well as the bad, and nearly all are creatures of opportunities. 471.--In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love. ["In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all her others what she loves is love." {--Lord Byron, }Don Juan, Canto iii., stanza 3. "We truly love once, the first time; the subsequent passions are more or less involuntary." La Bruyere: Du Coeur.] 472.--Pride as the other passions has its follies. We are ashamed to own we are jealous, and yet we plume ourselves in having been and being able to be so. 473.--However rare true love is, true friendship is rarer. ["It is more common to see perfect love than real friendship."--La Bruyere. Du Coeur.] 474.--There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.