66.—A clever man ought to so regulate his interests that each will fall in due order. Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.
67.—What grace is to the body good sense is to the mind.
68.—It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love—Plus many mysteries.
["Love is the love of one {singularly,} with desire to be singularly beloved."—Hobbes{Leviathan, (1651), Part I, Chapter VI}.]
{Two notes about this quotation: (1) the translators' mistakenly have "singularity" for the first "singularly" and (2) Hobbes does not actually write "Love is the..."—he writes "Love of one..." under the heading "The passion of Love."}
69.—If there is a pure love, exempt from the mixture of our other passions, it is that which is concealed at the bottom of the heart and of which even ourselves are ignorant.
70.—There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not.
71.—There are few people who would not be ashamed of being beloved when they love no longer.
72.—If we judge of love by the majority of its results it rather resembles hatred than friendship.
73.—We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to find those who have intrigued but once.