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YEAR 1795
January 1, 95.
In politics one must always leave the malcontents a bone to gnaw. Go far and do not finish.
Note. — “Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it preserves it” (Con-fut-zée). Note. — Bark beneath which there is no wood.
Evening.
Heaven has made all truths with two faces, one facing the strong, the other the weak. Each reads his duties on the side presented to him. — Now if, in the succession of times, these medals are turned over, and if it happens, for example, that the strong have before them only the side on which the duties of the weak are written, the weak in turn, and by an inevitable consequence, have before their eyes and mind only the duties of the strong, and no one knows what he must do, but very well what others must do, etc.
January 2.
Among the Greeks, the term euphémie, or well-speaking. Let us invent another and say euphronie, or well-feeling, etc.
= funeral expenses. Note: lime
There is a sparkling cold.
Note. Thought acts on the solids and can, through the direction it gives them, render ineffectual the direction man would receive from the action of his humors.
Engourdi [from] gourd.
January 4.
Children need tales.
Children: those who cannot speak. In speaking to them, one weakens one’s voice. One diminishes its volume and reach, etc.
Note. A paradox most often states a true proportion whose contrary is also true.
January 8.
There is a knot in digestion.
Whoever does not have ordinary merit together with extraordinary merit does not have enough merit.
The sun is shorn. Fogs.
Note. Hair seems like rays.
The fogs that powder the trees.
Those who have not been devout have never had a tender enough soul.
Roundness. This configuration assures the matter it embraces an easier duration. Time does not know where to take hold of it.