462.—The same pride which makes us blame faults from which we believe ourselves free causes us to despise the good qualities we have not.
463.—There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how superior we are to them, that we bestow on them the sign of our compassion.
464.—There exists an excess of good and evil which surpasses our comprehension.
465.—Innocence is most fortunate if it finds the same protection as crime.
466.—Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.
467.—Vanity makes us sin more against our taste than reason.
468.—Some bad qualities form great talents.
469.—We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason.
470.—All our qualities are uncertain and doubtful, both the good as well as the bad, and nearly all are creatures of opportunities.
471.—In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.