31.--If we had no faults we should not take so much
pleasure in noting those of others.

32.--Jealousy lives upon doubt; and comes to an
end or becomes a fury as soon as it passes from
doubt to certainty.

33.--Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even
when it casts away vanity.

[See maxim 450, where the author states, what we take
from our other faults we add to our pride.]

34.--If we had no pride we should not complain of
that of others.

["The proud are ever most provoked by pride."-Cow-
per, CONVERSATION 160.]

35.--Pride is much the same in all men, the only
difference is the method and manner of showing it.

["Pride bestowed on all a common friend."--Pope,
ESSAY ON MAN, Ep. ii., line 273.]

36.--It would seem that nature, which has so wisely
ordered the organs of our body for our happiness, has
also given us pride to spare us the mortification of
knowing our imperfections.