To dig deeper than necessary; or to dwell on a thought longer than it deserves.

The sweetness of feelings and ideas delights the soul’s taste, flavors satisfy the body’s taste.

June 3.

... have built their power with dead bodies.

Animals love those who speak to them.

To fulfill one’s duties well and play one’s role well. But to fulfill one’s duties well is the more beautiful.

June 4.

Redundancy of feeling... Then there can be redundancy of words.

June 5.

All that has really been removed from these festivals is prayer and piety. The people have stubbornly kept their pleasures and dissipations.

Wherever there is pathy, a sympathy forms, human passions always making themselves heard by the human heart, where they resound as in their echo.

Every echo thrills at what it hears, etc. or at what it repeats.

June 4.

One scarcely has in one’s imagination what one has in one’s room. Imagination needs objects without bodies or absent objects.

Their hard mind is a hammer that knows only how to break.

June 5.

And on these holy days the poor man offers God the sacrifice of his wages, through his rest.

June 10.

One can write a commentary on a meal, because in a meal there is an order, an arrangement, a combination that has been followed; but a commentary on a morsel, a dish, a fruit, etc. would be ridiculous.