(1665,
No. 53.)
IX.--One should be able to answer for one's fortune,
so as to be able to answer for what we shall do. (1665,
No. 70.)
X.--Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the
soul is to the body which it animates. (1665, No. 77.)
XI.--As one is never at liberty to love or to cease
from loving, the lover cannot with justice complain
of the inconstancy of his mistress, nor she of the
fickleness of her lover. (1665, No. 81.)
XII.--Justice in those judges who are moderate
is but a love of their place. (1665, No. 89.)
XIII.--When we are tired of loving we are quite
content if our mistress should become faithless, to loose
us from our fidelity. (1665, No. 85.)
XIV.--The first impulse of joy which we feel at the
happiness of our friends arises neither from our
natural goodness nor from friendship; it is the result
of self-love, which flatters us with being lucky in
our own turn, or in reaping something from the good
fortune of our friends. (1665, No. 97.)
XV.--In the adversity of our best friends we
always find something which is not wholly displeasing
to us.
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