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Those who during life doubted these truths occupy their mind’s eyes with them for a thousand years, perceiving their clarity only through a thousand clouds. This contemplation without discovery is their sole occupation. It serves them as punishment. This continual pain of contemplating darkness is equally the lot of all who failed to recognize the light, whether through a methodical error or through the hardness of their hearts.
Note. Let us not pick apart what is not doubtful.
September 8.
Only the religious man is always the same. This is because his God does not change.
September 16.
Sex organs. One looks like a wound, the other like a flayed body.
October 18.
There are truths that deceive. How. Are there also lies that keep those who listen to them from deceiving themselves?
October 24.
Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba. That is no excuse. The pagina lasciva matters. Vita proba matters less.
October 25.
Between Greek and Latin there was more or less the same affinity that exists between French and English, but the difference was another.
October 27.
If he drew his breath back into himself, fire would withdraw into itself, air would spread around fire, water would spread around air, and dust around water, and then all matter would form only a grain of sand.
Spirit (pure spirit). Matter is its excess (excrcmentum, or what is cast off). It is (if one may use this coarse image) only the effect of the digestion (the residue) of its immortal nourishment, which is thought.
October 25.
Modesty and piety. Piety is a kind of modesty. The one makes us lower our eyes, the other lower our thought before everything forbidden. (A barrier thought dares not cross...)
If fortune wishes to make a man worthy of esteem, it gives him virtues. If it wishes to make him esteemed, it gives him successes.
September 22.
One knows him through piety, the sole modification of our soul by which he is brought within our reach and can show himself to us.
Matter is a part of himself that is outside him.