422.--All passions make us commit some faults,
love alone makes us ridiculous.
["In love we all are fools alike."--Gay{, THE
BEGGAR'S OPERA, (1728), Act III, Scene I, Lucy}.]
423.--Few know how to be old.
424.--We often credit ourselves with vices the
reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of
our obstinacy.
425.--Penetration has a spice of divination in it
which tickles our vanity more than any other quality
of the mind.
426.--The charm of novelty and old custom, how-
ever opposite to each other, equally blind us to the
faults of our friends.
["Two things the most opposite blind us equally, custom
and novelty."-La Bruyere, DES JUDGEMENTS.]
427.--Most friends sicken us of friendship, most
devotees of devotion.
428.--We easily forgive in our friends those faults
we do not perceive.
429.--Women who love, pardon more readily great
indiscretions than little infidelities.
430.--In the old age of love as in life we still sur-
vive for the evils, though no longer for the pleasures.
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