499.--We do not usually reckon a woman's first
flirtation until she has had a second.
500.--Some people are so self-occupied that when
in love they find a mode by which to be engrossed
with the passion without being so with the person
they love.
501.--Love, though so very agreeable, pleases more
by its ways than by itself.
502.--A little wit with good sense bores less in the
long run than much wit with ill nature.
503.--Jealousy is the worst of all evils, yet the one
that is least pitied by those who cause it.
504.--Thus having treated of the hollowness of so
many apparent virtues, it is but just to say something
on the hollowness of the contempt for death. I allude
to that contempt of death which the heathen boasted
they derived from their unaided understanding, with-
out the hope of a future state. There is a difference
between meeting death with courage and despising it.
The first is common enough, the last I think always
feigned. Yet everything that could be has been
written to persuade us that death is no evil, and the
weakest of men, equally with the bravest, have given
many noble examples on which to found such an
opinion, still I do not think that any man of good sense
has ever yet believed in it.
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