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August …8.
Women. — Their triumph is not to weary and defeat their persecutors, but to soften them and make their weapons fall.
It seems they ought not to concern themselves with the truth (or falsity) of human opinions.
August …9.
He first saluted the public places, the walls, the temple, and the tombs...
August …4. (at the Clos.)
All of us have only a drop of intelligence, which is lost in this ocean.
August …5.
The idea hatches as though emerging from an envelope that breaks.
August …7.
A day of anger. May it be the last!
Despotism and tyranny. Difference. Is there any?
August …8.
The inevitable effect of an excessive love of bodily pleasures is to make us incapable of enjoying them or incapable of enjoying any others.
August …0 (Bussy).
Flies of the fields, which never come to town.
August 31.
Of repentance. — Of the repentance that changes the soul and the repentance that does not change it. How moral repentance bears only on some action. How the other annihilates the individual. Through that one, one is no longer this or that person. One is only a man who renounces everything that has made his nature particular and capable of such and such movements that one detests.
What birdlime binds one to the earth...
August 10.
Mirabeau was a child mighty in deeds, in words. — I am only a feeble child, but I teach children where wisdom may be found.
August 22.
Just as man was made in the image of God, the earth was made in the image of heaven.