Fare (good fare). Fare: treatment that shows joy and tender friendship. Chère, from charité: lovingness.

Let us have only opinions compatible with excellent feelings. And feeling is thus a judge in sound logic, in intellectual matters.

May 23.

Strength, riches, health, youth, pleasures, are necessary for the wicked man to be happy, but not for the good man.

In most honorable feelings there is something better or more powerful than calculation and reason: instinct and necessity,

May […]4.

The why of most of our qualities is that one is good, is [that] one is a man, is that one is the work of God.

Of caring for walls and enclosing walls. (To Mr. p—2+ʳ.)

“Abandon long hope and vast thoughts,” says the poet. I no [longer] have vast thoughts.

Plato is wrong: there are things that can be communicated and cannot be taught. There are some that one manifestly possesses without being able to communicate [them]. Strictly speaking, perhaps one is learned only in [what] can be taught; but one can be endowed with an art that cannot be transmitted. Nothing can be taught of what depends on the [glance], on instinct, on genius, etc. The art of understanding [men] is among these, and perhaps high politics too.

The soul is the whole man.

Of relatives or correlatives, when it is a question of God and divine things.

June […]8.

One feels that in some there is soured sweetness, and in others only sweetened sourness. So that the habitual state of the former is sweetness, which in the others is only an accidental state. The latter, then, sour by nature and sweet [by] accident and by chance.

June 10.

Nothing is more tedious than the lengthy refutation of an error that is neither ours, nor our friends’, nor our enemies’.