446.--What makes the grief of shame and jealousy
so acute is that vanity cannot aid us in enduring them.
447.--Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most
obeyed.
[Honour has its supreme laws, to which education is
bound to conform....Those things which honour
forbids are more rigorously forbidden when the laws do
not concur in the prohibition, and those it commands are
more strongly insisted upon when they happen not to be
commanded by law.--Montesquieu, {THE SPIRIT OF LAWS, }b. 4,
c. ii.]
448.--A well-trained mind has less difficulty in sub-
mitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.
449.--When fortune surprises us by giving us some
great office without having gradually led us to expect
it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh
impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy
to fill it.
450.--Our pride is often increased by what we
retrench from our other faults.
["The loss of sensual pleasures was supplied and com-
pensated by spiritual pride."--Gibbon.
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