May 31.

In dimensions everything begins with the point; in numbers, everything begins with one.

Every elastic body necessarily contains within itself a subtle fluid that leaves it at the instant of compression and reenters it at the moment of restoration.

At the theater, a room is always assumed to have only three walls.

It then seems that the mind is molting. This is because some change is indeed taking place in it.

June 1.

An oak is an infinity to the caterpillar whose microscopic eyes enlarge everything and cannot measure a hundredth part of such a height.

What comes through war will depart through war. Every spoil will be retaken, all booty scattered. All victors will be vanquished, and every city full of plunder will be sacked in its turn.

June 6.

Anthill. City of a hundred gates. Hecaton-pylos.

Note. That old age generally loves cities.

If the soul inhabits the brain (to speak like these moderns), it is lodged exactly like the spider; I mean at the center of a web where a thousand threads (called nerves) converge.

With the telescope, with the microscope, a greater number of phenomena have been seen; and that is all.

Plato. He is an author whose ideas one understands only when they have become one’s own.

Let us transport ourselves to the time when wine was invented...