44.--Strength and weakness of mind are mis-named;
they are really only the good or happy arrangement of
our bodily organs.

45.--The caprice of our temper is even more whim-
sical than that of Fortune.

46.--The attachment or indifference which philoso-
phers have shown to life is only the style of their self
love, about which we can no more dispute than of that
of the palate or of the choice of colours.

47.--Our temper sets a price upon every gift that
we receive from fortune.

48.--Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things
themselves; we are happy from possessing what we
like, not from possessing what others like.

49.--We are never so happy or so unhappy as we
suppose.

50.--Those who think they have merit persuade
themselves that they are honoured by being unhappy,
in order to persuade others and themselves that they
are worthy to be the butt of fortune.

["Ambition has been so strong as to make very miserable
men take comfort that they were supreme in misery; and
certain it is{, that where} we cannot distinguish ourselves by some-