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.
489.--However wicked men may be, they do not
dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when
they desire to persecute her they either pretend to
believe her false or attribute crimes to her.
490.--We often go from love to ambition, but we
never return from ambition to love.
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