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493.--It appears that men do not find they have
enough faults, as they increase the number by certain
peculiar qualities that they affect to assume, and
which they cultivate with so great assiduity that at
length they become natural faults, which they can no
longer correct.
494.--What makes us see that men know their
faults better than we imagine, is that they are never
wrong when they speak of their conduct; the same
self-love that usually blinds them enlightens them,
and gives them such true views as to make them
suppress or disguise the smallest thing that might be
censured.
495.--Young men entering life should be either shy
or bold; a solemn and sedate manner usually de-
generates into impertinence.
496.--Quarrels would not last long if the fault was
only on one side.
497.--It is valueless to a woman to be young unless
pretty, or to be pretty unless young.
498.--Some persons are so frivolous and fickle that
they are as far removed from real defects as from
substantial qualities.
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