295.
The Public Speaker.—One may speak with the greatest appropriateness, and yet so that everybody cries out to the contrary,—that is to say, when one does not speak to everybody.
296.
Want of Confidence.—Want of confidence among friends is a fault that cannot be censured without becoming incurable.
297.
The Art of Giving.—To have to refuse a gift, merely because it has not been offered in the right way, provokes animosity against the giver.
298.
The Most Dangerous Partisan.—In every party there is one who, by his far too dogmatic expression of the party-principles, excites defection among the others.
299.