those on whom she smiles.

61.--The happiness or unhappiness of men depends
no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes.

["Still to ourselves in every place consigned
Our own felicity we make or find."
Goldsmith, TRAVELLER, 431.]

62.--Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in
very few people; what we usually see is only an artful
dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

63.--The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambi-
tion to render our words credible and weighty, and
to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

64.--Truth does not do as much good in the world,
as its counterfeits do evil.

65.--There is no praise we have not lavished upon
Prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most
trifling event.

[The author corrected this maxim several times, in 1665
it is No. 75; 1666, No. 66; 1671-5, No. 65; in the last
edition it stands as at present. In the first he quotes
Juvenal, Sat. X., line 315.
" Nullum numen habes si sit Prudentia, nos te;
Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam, coeloque locamus."