281.—Pride, which inspires, often serves to moderate envy.
282.—Some disguised lies so resemble truth, that we should judge badly were we not deceived.
283.—Sometimes there is not less ability in knowing how to use than in giving good advice.
284.—There are wicked people who would be much less dangerous if they were wholly without goodness.
285.—Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
286.—It is impossible to love a second time those whom we have really ceased to love.
287.—Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at each thing our imagination presents, and hinders us from at first discerning which is the best.
288.—There are matters and maladies which at certain times remedies only serve to make worse; true skill consists in knowing when it is dangerous to use them.
289.—Affected simplicity is refined imposture.
[Domitianus simplicitatis ac modestiae imagine studium litterarum et amorem carminum simulabat quo velaret animum et fratris aemulationi subduceretur.—Tacitus, Ann. iv.]