Summer is in heaven, autumn on earth, winter at Taenarum, and spring in Elysium.
“Time has slackened the strings of his lyre.”
In spring music must be gentle, soft in autumn, brilliant during winter, and light during summer.
There is always obscurity in the names of obscure things, and it is inexact to give them a name whose meaning is fixed and palpable, so to speak.
The wicked man must always be represented as mad. Mad through some passion. Etc.
Those who have neither their pleasures nor their needs to occupy them are to be pitied.
An ingenious conversation with a man is a mission. With a woman it is a harmony, a concert. There is the relation of the octave to the bass. You leave one satisfied; you leave the other enchanted.
December 29.
... and some memory of us...
They cannot grow accustomed to lacking nothing.
An invincible reluctance to wish to be the wicked man.
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The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volume I · Book Mode · Diotimos