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Δῆμος: it is capable of virtue, but incapable of wisdom.
Where God himself had his tent...
Let no one be permitted to add a house to the town unless he adds a field to its territory. There will be towns without territory, as there are manufactories without gardens, and territories without towns; the local circumstances will decide.
Josephus. This priest was too young, and had been too much a warrior, to have had time to become learned.
Let it not be permitted to know what is not clearly expressed there.
Whoever goes beyond misses the mark.
“He does good and no harm,” the Egyptians said of the ox. Fine praise.
There will be four feasts. The feast of relatives, the feast of friends, the feast of the poor (orphans and widows), and the feast of strangers. Relatives by marriage will be included in the feast of relatives, and neighbors in that of friends. There will be a fifth feast: the feast of hired workers, tenant farmers, menservants, laborers, and maidservants. Everyone will give all these feasts.
March 2.
Music changed. Arithmetic, introduced. The laws of feasts, abolished. Children’s games, suppressed. It is that people no longer sing at table. — A century sick in its nerves.
There is a bond that unites them, however different they may be, and matches disparate things. That bond is pleasure, cheerful and innocent pleasure.
March 3.
Something must be sacred.
March 15.
The music of songs of mourning seems to let the sounds die.