["No," says a commentator, "Ridicule may do harm, but it cannot dishonour; it is vice which confers dishonour.">[
327.—We own to small faults to persuade others that we have not great ones.
328.—Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
329.—We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery —we only dislike the method.
["{But} when I tell him he hates flatter{ers}, He says he does, being then most flattered." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar {,Act II, Scene I, Decius}.]
330.—We pardon in the degree that we love.
331.—It is more difficult to be faithful to a mistress when one is happy, than when we are ill-treated by her.
[Si qua volet regnare diu contemnat amantem.—Ovid, Amores, ii. 19.]
332.—Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.
333.—Women cannot be completely severe unless they hate.