MAXIME CXIX.
Not to affect to be Churlish.
We ought never to provoke aversion, it comes fast enough without being sought after. There are a great many people who hate at a venture, and know neither how nor why. Hatred is readier than good will. Humour is more enclined to hurt, than to doe service. Some affect to be at odds with every body, either through a spirit of contradiction, or be∣cause they are out of humour. When once hatred has got possession of their heart, it is as hard to root it out again, as to undeceive them. Men of wit are fea∣red; backbiters are hated; the presump∣tuous are despised; scoffers are abhorred; and the singular are forsaken of all men. To be esteemed then, we must esteem. He that would make his Fortune, sets a value upon every thing.