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March 1.
That the despot alone is sovereignly free.—That one shares freedom with no one without yielding some of it etc., without losing a portion.—That a diminished, communicated, and diffused freedom is worth more than one that is whole and concentrated.—Hesiod’s saying, “half is worth more than the whole,” Adde thickening (or intensity) less than extent.
March 3.
Are equal.—They must know it and forget it.
March 4.
Janus—or—That every truth has two faces, that every rule has two surfaces—that every precept offers two applications.
The mind can create only errors. Truths it does not create; they exist; it merely sees them, distinguishes them, discovers them, and sets them forth.
March 5.
For error is what is not.
Lovers. Those who do not have their weaknesses do not have their strengths.
In politics, others’ ideas corrupt mine. They temper me when I ... them
March 7.
Morality is the bread of souls. It must be distributed to men fully prepared. To sift it, grind it, and bake it, and cut it into pieces for them.
March 8.
Clarity of mind is not given to every age.
The French have a nimble, agreeable, and unimposing mind. Even the wise men of this nation seem in their writings to be young men.
We do not write our books when they are made, but make them as we write them. Thus the best in our works is masked by scaffolding: our discourses are full of what should have been taken and what should have been left.
The impossibility of leaving the Roman universe. Its orbit enclosed the world.