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Have very definite opinions, supported by three or four little-known but incontestable facts. Then speak boldly, with your ears stopped. You may well be wrong, but people will believe you are right.
To make my honey.—Honey that smells of the horehound flower.
May 18.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
From the combined height and length of a beautiful building, a roundness must be able to result.
What are these cities whose center and extremities nothing marks out from afar?
There are truths that cannot be learned in conversation.
Forbidden to speak of God...
Mme de Staël—Her depths seem to me like those of an abyss. They frighten me.
O my dear! The time has come when we must take a woman’s advice. Let us listen to Necker’s daughter.
There is a certain dose of evil (that is, a certain quantity of vices and misfortunes) essentially inherent in the nature of human affairs. So long as it does not exceed its inevitable and natural measure, one must bear it and call the times one lives in a happy age. If it exceeds, etc.
Reason. Imagination is her mistress of the robes.
May 30.
Spechio-espeljo, mirror or model. Every drama must have its spechio, its espeljo, its model. Without this, the spectator and the reader will feel that they lack a pleasure and that the work lacks a beauty and a usefulness.