[Aime Martin says, "The author here confuses greediness, the desire and avarice--passions which probably have a common origin, but produce different results. The greedy man is nearly always desirous to possess, and often foregoes great future advantages for small present interests. The avaricious man, on the other hand, mistakes present advantages for the great expectations of the future. Both desire to possess and enjoy. But the miser possesses and enjoys nothing but the pleasure of possessing; he risks nothing, gives nothing, hopes nothing, his life is centred in his strong box, beyond that he has no want."] 493.--It appears that men do not find they have enough faults, as they increase the number by certain peculiar qualities that they affect to assume, and which they cultivate with so great assiduity that at length they become natural faults, which they can no longer correct. 494.--What makes us see that men know their faults better than we imagine, is that they are never wrong when they speak of their conduct; the same self-love that usually blinds them enlightens them, and gives them such true views as to make them suppress or disguise the smallest thing that might be censured. 495.--Young men entering life should be either shy or bold; a solemn and sedate manner usually degenerates into impertinence. 496.--Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. 497.--It is valueless to a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young. 498.--Some persons are so frivolous and fickle that they are as far removed from real defects as from substantial qualities. 499.--We do not usually reckon a woman's first flirtation until she has had a second. 500.--Some people are so self-occupied that when in love they find a mode by which to be engrossed with the passion without being so with the person they love. 501.--Love, though so very agreeable, pleases more by its ways than by itself. 502.--A little wit with good sense bores less in the long run than much wit with ill nature. 503.--Jealousy is the worst of all evils, yet the one that is least pitied by those who cause it.