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Light comes from God to the stars and from the stars to us.
December 18.
Butterfly. Its wings are colored leaves that sustain it upon the flowers.
Charlatans. Cold people like them cold; frivolous people like them lively.
November 9.
Décalorer. A new word our chemists have fabricated. It means to remove heat. They used to say déphlogistique, a Greek word that did not ill become the mouths of natural philosophers.
Décalorer, which is unpleasant, nevertheless has nearly the same sound, the same number of syllables as the pretty word décolorer. It resembles it as the monkey resembles man.
Saturday, November 4.
Those horns of the snail that naturalists so precisely and clearly call tentacula in Latin, that is, tryers (if one may venture this word), are properly a forebody.
December 27.
The spoken word is an arrow one lets fly.
November 18.
Author and subject. Instead of treating it, he amuses himself by caressing it.
Socrates. — The clothed Graces.
— the duty of the wise to bring up the young.
Gallantry. Athenian politeness almost spoke its language.
Socrates. Did not vote in public assemblies until the age of sixty.
November 21. At the star.
Delicate minds are all minds born sublime that could not take flight because organs too weak, health too changeable, or habits too soft restrained all their soaring impulses.
December 2.
Everyone delights in putting their talent to work. If architects had divine omnipotence, they would occupy themselves solely with demolishing and rebuilding the world.
The world was populated by artists who confined themselves to painting society as they found it and made either its faults or its beauties remain. These were succeeded by real masons who wanted to rebuild it.
December 5.
Propositions to examine. — That one has no religion unless one has someone else’s; that one cannot make to one’s own liking a worship and a law that one observes; that its feeling and practice can exist fully in man only through communication; that the eternal nature of things has so willed it. And this law of statics that requires the lever to be outside the weight and the will (determination) to have its motives outside itself. That the inventors and founders of religions who believed in them and faithfully observed them do not contradict this rule because, as heads of sects, they had the religion of their followers, whose conviction, by its reaction, instilled in them the faith they had received from them.