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November 3.
Ingratitude belongs to coarse souls or to fools. How it is an effect inherent in these natures of men.
It is the human race as a body that invents the arts. All are sons of the experiences the centuries have passed on to one another and of the needs common to all.
He gave him freedom so that he might have virtue, and deprived [him] of foreknowledge so that he might remain free.
Mme Necker. Vid. vol. 2, p. 153. “To dispense with punctuation.” She adds: “a goal toward which every good writer must strive if he wishes to give his style all the perfection of which it is capable.”
November 4.
“Nothing is lost.” That is to say, nothing is lost entirely. For a part of the whole may, after all, be entirely lost without the economy of nature being any less perfect.
Too much is like a nutshell in which enough is contained.
Always to explain the moral world through the physical world is not safe. For in the physical world we often take appearances for realities, our conjectures for facts. We thus risk having two errors instead of one by applying to one world the false dimensions we give the other. Applications of the moral world to the political world are better.
Prayer occupies one with God.
In all things the stupid remain short of truth and the mad go beyond it.
November 6.
“Compasses opened too wide.” Add: “and that cannot be narrowed.”
All these genres in which one is reduced to being not only the painter but also the joiner of one’s picture, whose frame one must make, and not only the frame but the stretcher, the canvas, the colors, the glass, just as one has made its figures.
Eloquence and the multitude. He has eloquence, that is, he speaks as one must speak to the assembled multitude.
Orator: mouthed. From os, mouth. He whose mouth is public.