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Reminiscence. Is like a shadow of a memory.
The tone of elegy, called sentimental, has succeeded that of bombast.
December 29.
There (is found) rest after work, happiness after virtue.
The famous, the illustrious among us are those who excel, not in some science, but in some fashionable science.
December 30.
Geometry. Is today not a taste, but a fashion.
That for them there is no thought that is the last, but the one so called is followed by another, and the last look followed by another look, when they pass from one order of existence to another order.
December 31.
Order. Good order. Of those born to observe it (all), and of those born to establish it (few, or the small number).
Aristotle says: “when coction takes place, the animal sleeps; when it is completed, it wakes.” It follows that sleep is the product of a concentration of forces and movements in a single point, which is the stomach; and that waking is brought about by the distribution of vital juices at the moment when it takes place abundantly from this center to the extremities; I mean to all the animal’s extremities.
Prayers (or wishes). Of those that make one better and those that make one worse. — That one must ask for virtue at any price and with insistence, and for prosperity timidly and with entire resignation. — That to ask is to receive, when one asks for true goods.