422.—All passions make us commit some faults, love alone makes us ridiculous.
["In love we all are fools alike."—Gay{, The Beggar's Opera, (1728), Act III, Scene I, Lucy}.]
423.—Few know how to be old.
424.—We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
425.—Penetration has a spice of divination in it which tickles our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
426.—The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally blind us to the faults of our friends.
["Two things the most opposite blind us equally, custom and novelty."-La Bruyère, Des Judgements.]
427.—Most friends sicken us of friendship, most devotees of devotion.
428.—We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.
429.—Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than little infidelities.