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  ...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 con- sole 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 dis- honour."]
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...   La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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