290.—There are as many errors of temper as of mind.
291.—Man's merit, like the crops, has its season.
292.—One may say of temper as of many buildings; it has divers aspects, some agreeable, others disagreeable.
293.—Moderation cannot claim the merit of opposing and overcoming Ambition: they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and sloth of the soul, Ambition its activity and heat.
294.—We always like those who admire us, we do not always like those whom we admire.
295.—It is well that we know not all our wishes.
296.—It is difficult to love those we do not esteem, but it is no less so to love those whom we esteem much more than ourselves.
297.—Bodily temperaments have a common course and rule which imperceptibly affect our will. They advance in combination, and successively exercise a secret empire over us, so that, without our perceiving it, they become a great part of all our actions.
298.—The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
[Hence the common proverb "Gratitude is merely a lively sense of favors to come.">[