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Emblem. For its body, a tree. For its soul, these words: “A breath stirs me and nothing shakes me.” Given to Mme de B. Montmorin by Mr. de Rulhières.
Aristotle. Exactness, precision, ease; depth and clarity. His mind sometimes takes one step more than it should, through that force which often carries every moving body beyond the goal, however measured the impulse first received.
Council of Ancients. Session of 7 Ventôse. “The debate on maritime prizes resumes. Moreau de l’Yonne defends the resolution... Consider (he says in closing) that voting against the resolution involves restoring fifty to sixty million to the enemies. Closure of the debate is requested. Garat announces that he has a speech entirely ready in favor of the resolution, but that the fever which has held him for several days would not allow him to read more than two or three pages of it. He asks for a delay of two days. The debate is constituted.”
Evening meals are the joy of the day.
Every past is so short!
How it happens that only in searching for words does one find thoughts.
Let human pride speak and let it believe; it needs its phantoms.
Aristotle and Pliny. He said that Aristotle was full of juice and Pliny full of fat, — good and fine fat, in truth.
To be miserly requires only idleness, inaction. That is why avarice is contagious.
The Peripatetics would not allow that a line could be composed of points, because the point is indivisible. They were wrong. In singing, each note, though indivisible, joins another and makes continuity through a kind of resonance that serves, in a way, as an intermediate articulation. Likewise, each point joins another point through a kind of swelling that serves as a means of contact and identification between the two.
March 1.
Our wills are the instrument with which he handles us.
This moral freedom that comes to us from our imperfection.