76.--There is real love just as there are real ghosts;
every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

["Oh Love! no habitant of earth thou art--
An unseen seraph, we believe in thee--
A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart,--
But never yet hath seen, nor e'er shall see
The naked eye, thy form as it should be."
{--Lord Byron, }CHILDE HAROLD, {Canto} iv., stanza 121.]

77.--Love lends its name to an infinite number of
engagements (COMMERCES) which are attributed to it,
but with which it has no more concern than the Doge
has with all that is done in Venice.

78.--The love of justice is simply in the majority of
men the fear of suffering injustice.

79.--Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts
himself.

80.--What renders us so changeable in our friend-
ship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the
soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

81.--We can love nothing but what agrees with us,
and we can only follow our taste or our pleasure when
we prefer our friends to ourselves; nevertheless it is
only by that preference that friendship can be true
and perfect.