430.—In the old age of love as in life we still survive for the evils, though no longer for the pleasures.
["The youth of friendship is better than its old age." —Hazlitt's Characteristics, 229.]
431.—Nothing prevents our being unaffected so much as our desire to seem so.
432.—To praise good actions heartily is in some measure to take part in them.
433.—The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
["Nemo alienae virtuti invidet qui satis confidet suae." —Cicero In Marc Ant.]
434.—When our friends have deceived us we owe them but indifference to the tokens of their friendship, yet for their misfortunes we always owe them pity.
435.—Luck and temper rule the world.
436.—It is far easier to know men than to know man.
437.—We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them.