189.—It seems that nature has at man's birth fixed the bounds of his virtues and vices.
190.—Great men should not have great faults.
191.—We may say vices wait on us in the course of our life as the landlords with whom we successively lodge, and if we travelled the road twice over I doubt if our experience would make us avoid them.
192.—When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves with the idea we have left them.
193.—There are relapses in the diseases of the mind as in those of the body; what we call a cure is often no more than an intermission or change of disease.
194.—The defects of the mind are like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening.
195.—The reason which often prevents us abandoning a single vice is having so many.
196.—We easily forget those faults which are known only to ourselves.
[Seneca says "Innocentem quisque se dicit respiciens testem non conscientiam.">[
197.—There are men of whom we can never believe evil without having seen it. Yet there are very few in whom we should be surprised to see it.