41.—Those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things.
42.—We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.
43.—A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavours to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.
44.—Strength and weakness of mind are mis-named; they are really only the good or happy arrangement of our bodily organs.
45.—The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.
46.—The attachment or indifference which philosophers have shown to life is only the style of their self love, about which we can no more dispute than of that of the palate or of the choice of colours.
47.—Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
48.—Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
49.—We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
50.—Those who think they have merit persuade themselves that they are honoured by being unhappy, in order to persuade others and themselves that they are worthy to be the butt of fortune.