76. There are three great maxims to be observed by those who hold public situations; voz. to be uprigbt, -to be circumspect, to be diligent. Those who know these three rules, know that by which they will ensure their own safety in office.
77. A man's prosperous, or declining condition, may be gathered from the proportion of his waking to his sleeping hours.
78. Unsullied poverty is always happy, while impure wealth brings with it many sorrows.
79. He who receives a benefit, and is not ungrateful,-as a son, will be dutiful, --as a minister, will be faithful.
80. The fame of men's good actions seldom goes beyond their own doors; but their evil deeds are carried to a thousand miles distance.
81. The sincerity of him, who assents to every thing, must be small; and .he who praises you inordinately to your face, must be altogether false.
82. Petty distinctions are injurious to rectitude; quibbling words violate right reason.
83. 'hough powerful medicines be nauseous to the taste, they are good for the disease: though candid advice be unpleasant to the ear, it is profitable for the conduct.
84. To shew compassion towards the people, by remitting the severity of the taxes, is the virtue of the prince; and to offer up their possessions, sinking their private views in regard for the public, is the duty ofthe people.
85. Though the life of man be short of a hundred years, he gives himself as much pain and anxiety as if he were to live a thousand.
86. The advantages of wise institutions can be sought for, only in an inflexible observance of them.
87. If a man does not receive guest at home, he will meet with very few hosts abroad.
88. Where views and dispositions agree, the most distant will unite in riendship: where they disagree, relations themselves will soon be at enmity.
89. Without a clear mirror, a woman cannot know the state of her own face: without a true friend, a men cannot discern the errors of his own actions.
90. The evidence of others is not comparable to personal experience: nor is “I heard" so good as " I saw".
91. The three greatest misfortunes in life are, in youth to bury one's father, -at the middle age to lose one's wife,-and, being old, to have no son.
92. A virtuous woman is a source of honour to her husband: a vicious one causes him disgrace.
93. It being asked, "Supposing a widowed woman to be very poor and destitute, might she in such a case take a second husband ?"-It was answered, " This question arises merely from the fear of cold and hunger: but to be starved to death, is a very small matter, compared with the loss of her respectability."
94. Those who cause divisions, in order to injure other people, are in fact preparing pitfalls for their own ruin.
95. Even the carriers of burthens may, by honesty and diligence, obtain a sufficiency. The Proverb says, " Every blade of grass has its share of the dews of Heaven:" and "Though the birds of the forest have no garners; the wide world is all before them."
96. Wisdom, and Virtue, and benevolence, and Rectitude, without Good-breeding, are imperfect,
97. He who wishes to know the road through the mountains, must ask those who have already trodden it. (i. e. we must look for instruction to the experienced.)
98. Rich men look forward to the years that are to come; but the poor man has time to think only of what is immediately before him.
99. It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities, than to assert that he does not.
100. The mischiefs of fire, or water, or robbers, extend only to the body; but those of pernicious doctrines, to the mind.
101. The original tendency of man's heart is to do right: and if a due caution be observed, it will not of itself go wrong.
102. As it is impossible to please men in all things, our only care should be to satisfy our own consciences.
103. He who at once knows himself, and knows others, will triumph as often as he contends.
104. Though brothers are very near relations, the difference of fortune widely separates them.
105. Eat your three meals in the day, and look forward to sleeping at night.
106. A man's countenance is a sufficient index of his prosperity or adversity, without asking him any questions.
107. Adversity is necessary to the developement of men's virtues.
108. It is too late to pull the rein when the horse has gained the brink of the precipice: the time for stopping the leak is passed, when the vessel is in the midst of the river.
