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Idylls and eclogues and touching elegies (N. B. Ovid’s, that is, the Tristia. Etc.)
Minds must be nursed at the breast.
In passing through the mind, all these lightly studied sciences always deposit a part of themselves there, and usually the part most akin to our temperaments and our talents.
The inclination to destruction is one of the means employed to preserve the world.
Nervorum affectus sanat febris. Nervous affections therefore have as their cause some raw and subtle humor that fever cooks and disperses.
Sneezing is produced by a contraction and a sudden relaxation of the pituitary membrane, which, as soon as some particle of foreign and corrupt humor enters it, immediately becomes irritated and expels it with all its force. Hence the sudden upward movement of all tissue, its descent again, the explosion, and the noise that follows it.
June 20.
Bonnet exclaims: “Our eyes will then be telescopes and microscopes!” He imagines no happiness in heaven other than the scholar’s.
Bonnet’s works: their material is better than the work.
Through gardening one enjoys the pure delicacies of agriculture.
Cardinal de Retz. The man in the world best suited to be the soul of a party.
July 9, 1796.
Distrust is the lot of the blind.
Are you poor, distinguish yourself by virtues. Are you rich, distinguish yourself by good deeds.
Divorce. Its existence and use must be governed solely by the interests of the children.
Virtue. In exalting her, they raise her so high that she looks small.