28.

We often make a parade of passions, even of the most criminal; but envy is a timid and shameful passion which we never dare to avow.

29.

Jealousy is in some sort just and reasonable, since it only has for its object the preservation. of a good which belongs, or which we fancy belongs to ourselves, while envy, on the contrary, is a madness which cannot endure the good of others.

30.

The evil which we commit does not draw

28. "I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion, (sc. envy,) in good earnest; and yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest."-MANDEVILLE, Fable of the Bees, Remark N.

“Many men profess to hate another, but no man owns envy, as being an enmity or displeasure for no cause but goodness or felicity."-JER. TAYLOR, Holy Living.

30. "L'on me dit tant de mal de cet homme, et j'y en vois si peu que je commence à soupçonner qu'il n'ait qu'un mérite importun qui éteigne celui des autres."-LA BRUYERE, De la Cour.

down on us so much hatred and persecution as our good qualities.

31.

We have more power than will; and it is often by way of excuse to ourselves that we fancy things are impossible.

32.

If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take so much pleasure in remarking them in others.

33.

Jealousy lives upon doubts-it becomes madness, or ceases entirely, as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

34.

Pride always compensates itself, and loses nothing, even when it renounces vanity.

35.

If we had no pride ourselves, we should not complain of that of others.

34. "Whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity."-SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects.

35. "The proud are ever most provoked by pride." COWPER, Conversation.

36.

Pride is equal in all men; and the only difference is in the means and manner of displaying it.

37.

It seems that Nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

38.

Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in the remonstrances we make to those who are guilty of faults; we reprove not so much with a view to correct them as to persuade them that we are exempt from those faults ourselves.

"Men are sometimes accused of pride merely because their accusers would be proud themselves if they were in their places."-SHENSTONE, Men and Manners.

37. "See some strange comfort every state attend, And pride bestow'd on all, a common friend." POPE, Essay on Man, Ep. 2, 271.

39.

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

40.

Interest speaks all sorts of languages, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

41.

Interest, which blinds some, opens the eyes of others.

42.

Those who bestow too much application on

42. "Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and laborious attention to little objects which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz very sagaciously marked out Cardinal Chigi for a little mind, from the moment he told him that he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still."-LORD CHESTERFIELD.

"Never get a reputation for a small perfection, if you are trying for fame in a loftier area; the world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiæ, seldom have their minds occupied with great things. There are, it is true, exceptions; but to exceptions the world does not attend."-BULWER LYTTON.

trifling things, become generally incapable of great ones.

43.

We have not strength enough to follow all

our reason.

44.

A man often fancies that he guides himself when he is guided by others; and while his mind aims at one object, his heart insensibly draws him on to another.

45.

Strength and weakness of mind are badly named-they are, in fact, nothing more than the good or bad arrangement of the organs of the body.

46.

The capriciousness of our humor is often more fantastical than that of fortune.

47.

The attachment or indifference which the philosophers had for life was nothing more than one of the tastes of their self-love, which we ought no more to dispute than the taste of the palate, or the choice of colors.

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