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March 1.
There then takes place something like an exfoliation in the moral and intellectual part of the brain. Notions and opinions separate as though in layers from the medullary substance, and the first impressions, which are more intimately united with it and remain there to the end, revive and reappear more perceptibly as the others separate from it and leave them as though exposed.
March 2.
The notice is better than the book.
March 3.
Flame has the nature of everything that climbs. It clings, etc.
The name of father ought to be unshareable.
March 5.
Question.—Through writing, is not a coarse, inanimate, dead matter, endlessly decomposed and composed, endowed without noise and without voice with the power to speak and to be heard?—Answer:—Therefore, etc. You anticipate the conclusion.
That civil prudence, the only virtue useful to ourselves alone (or to its possessor).
To what school, after all, do you belong? For you are not learned enough to dare to guide yourself by your private opinions... and it would not be fitting for you to walk alone along the roads of...
March 6.
No one wanted to be second.
That the world is governed by illusions—or—Of the effects of optics.
Temples without recesses, or whose recess has no darkness...
March 9.
His mind resembles those wines that...
To bottle one’s mind.—An expression that sounds like a buffoon’s joke but has a very serious meaning. It is said of those minds that, to make their fire burst forth, need to be contained and, as it were, held captive by a fixed subject, a short time. Then they burst forth and send out jets like those wines that sparkle and show their play only when, enclosed in a small space and contained between the walls of a bottle, their fermentation concentrates and takes on a liveliness that greater freedom would destroy.
The little houses in the woods...
Snows.—When their curtain has been raised...