480.—Timidity is a fault which is dangerous to blame in those we desire to cure of it.
481.—Nothing is rarer than true good nature, those who think they have it are generally only pliant or weak.
482.—The mind attaches itself by idleness and habit to whatever is easy or pleasant. This habit always places bounds to our knowledge, and no one has ever yet taken the pains to enlarge and expand his mind to the full extent of its capacities.
483.—Usually we are more satirical from vanity than malice.
484.—When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.
485.—Those who have had great passions often find all their lives made miserable in being cured of them.
486.—More persons exist without self-love than without envy.
["I do not believe that there is a human creature in his senses arrived at maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (envy) in good earnest, and yet I never met with any who dared own he was guilty of it, but in jest."—Mandeville: Fable Of The Bees; Remark N.]
487.—We have more idleness in the mind than in the body.
488.—The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on what we regard as the more important things of life, as in a judicious or injudicious arrangement of the little things of daily occurrence.