389.—What makes the vanity of others unsupportable is that it wounds our own.
390.—We give up more easily our interest than our taste.
391.—Fortune appears so blind to none as to those to whom she has done no good.
392.—We should manage fortune like our health, enjoy it when it is good, be patient when it is bad, and never resort to strong remedies but in an extremity.
393.—Awkwardness sometimes disappears in the camp, never in the court.
394.—A man is often more clever than one other, but not than all others.
["Singuli decipere ac decipi possunt, nemo omnes, omnes neminem fefellerunt."—Pliny{ the Younger, Panegyricus, LXII}.]
395.—We are often less unhappy at being deceived by one we loved, than on being deceived.
396.—We keep our first lover for a long time—if we do not get a second.
397.—We have not the courage to say generally that we have no faults, and that our enemies have no good qualities; but in fact we are not far from believing so.