["In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all her others what she loves is love." {—Lord Byron, }Don Juan, Canto iii., stanza 3. "We truly love once, the first time; the subsequent passions are more or less involuntary." La Bruyère: Du Coeur.]
472.—Pride as the other passions has its follies. We are ashamed to own we are jealous, and yet we plume ourselves in having been and being able to be so.
473.—However rare true love is, true friendship is rarer.
["It is more common to see perfect love than real friendship."—La Bruyère. Du Coeur.]
474.—There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.
475.—The desire to be pitied or to be admired often forms the greater part of our confidence.
476.—Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
477.—The same firmness that enables us to resist love enables us to make our resistance durable and lasting. So weak persons who are always excited by passions are seldom really possessed of any.
478.—Fancy does not enable us to invent so many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
479.—It is only people who possess firmness who can possess true gentleness. In those who appear gentle it is generally only weakness, which is readily converted into harshness.