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It is not enough for a comparison to be accurate. It must also be clear. And for that, the object to which one compares must be better known, more apparent, than the object compared.
December 25.
That corruption of morals which presupposes a long peace, a long prosperity.
... And to plunge into death as into a river in which all cares are swallowed up and one drinks oblivion of ills.
The mind needs a ladder. A ladder and rungs.
The mind is laden with it, but not nourished by it.
To make a great work, one must have, besides a gigantic idea...
Excess reduced to the proper measure gives grandeur in its proportions.
Thought is an elastic thing.
The science of war is the science of the position of places and of number. The science of fencing is the science of the value of the body’s attitudes.
Those who peopled Germania had come from beyond the Danube, and those who peopled the lands of Gaul had come from beyond the Rhine.
The barbarians and, among others, the Slavs loved millet and cultivated only that plant.
My voice at least follows you, May it reach you.
Any language that, in the country where it was born and to which it belonged, comes to be spoken and written by a great number of men for whom it was not, in its purity, their native and first language will become corrupted.
N. B. — This concerns the corruption introduced into a living language [when] many foreigners use it to compose their books.