T37. Even and the conditional caution remain; esteem is not silently replaced by love or friendship.
T361. The complete sentence retains même and the conditional attention clause. No source loss or emphasis is present.
T38. The sufficiency claim and both qualities of education remain. Lettered preserves the book-related character of lettrée without silently expanding it to all liberal arts.
T39. All three comparisons and the final when qualification remain. Touch retains the affective image; the condition is not absorbed into an unqualified claim of superiority.
T40. The French idioms are translated literally to preserve their relation to the reported physical claim. They concern strenuous thinking; the body does not substitute rack one’s brains, which would lose the repeated breaking. Head-breaker is deliberately unusual. No exact Malebranche witness or modern physiological endorsement is supplied.
T364. Both quotations, the intervening parenthesis and repeated casser image remain. In the French source, the second comma is outside its closing quotation; the first period is after the parenthesis. Casse-tête retains its lexical hyphen. No precise external Malebranche locus is asserted by this transcription.
S1. Source editor’s annotation I believe an undated leaf containing commentary on 17 thoughts of Pythagoras should be assigned to somewhere around this date. There is no mention of Pythagoras on this leaf; but the 17 thoughts are the first 17 in a notebook entitled “Pythagoras,” where there are 59 of them, plus a supplement of fifteen, all in a very compressed and elliptical form. Concerning the 41st, “Leave to others what has fallen from your table,” Joubert notes: “The table (Dacier says) was sacred,” (it was a kind of altar), “and one could not put back on it what had fallen from it. It (that) was consecrated to the heroes, that is, to the angels, and had to be left for the poor.” The thought of February 10, 1814, about the table as a kind of altar, does indeed seem to come from there. Here are the thoughts of Pythagoras on which Joubert commented: “I. Do not pass the balance. That is: in doubt refrain from acting and judging. — II. Not to sit on the bushel. This is interpreted: Work always. For one must work even when the harvest has been made and the crop brought in. One plows after harvest. Plowing, sowing, etc. — III. Do not tear the crown. That is: not to grieve over any of one’s past joys. Not to disturb innocent pleasures. Not to insult the happy, etc. — VI. Do not desire the return when you cross the boundary; or: In the journey of life, go forward and do not draw back. Which means that in dying one must not think of living. — VII. Do not follow paved paths; that is, all common opinions. — VIII. Do not feed swallows. Be content to lodge them. Open your door sometimes, but never your breast to the flighty friends of fair weather and prosperity alone. — X. Help men to load themselves, but not to unload themselves. That is: do not lead them into any relaxation on the path of life and virtue; let them hear from you [only a] strict morality. The precepts are to be increased, (see Dacier). — XI. Do not readily extend your hand, or: Do not swear for everyone. Do not esteem all human beings. — XII. Erase from the ashes even the slightest traces of the pot. That is: when anger has boiled, when the […] is made, erase even the traces of dissensions. — XIII. Sow the mallow and do not eat it. That is: Be gentle and indulgent toward all; do not be so toward yourself. — XIV. (Do not rub and) do not erase the place of the torch. That is: the memory of the master. — XV. Do not wear a tight ring. That is-: do not be the slave of adornment. — XVI. Do not feed animals with curved claws. That is: do not admit the greedy among your friends or your disciples: for they are incapable of wisdom and fidelity. — XVII. To abstain from beans. That is; from honors, magistracies, what swells, etc. Note. The Pythagoreans practiced this maxim [to the] letter, as they did all the others, because they thought that by practicing the letter one trained oneself to be faithful to the spirit. Besides, etc.”
T41. The kind-of qualification and two repeated days remain. Source note 1 follows the last word and precedes the terminal period. The editor’s proposed dating and quoted Pythagorean commentary remain separate from Joubert’s dated entry.
T42. The first-person dating proposal belongs to Beaunier and does not establish a date for the undated leaf. The stated 17, 59, fifteen and 41st, and the discontinuous Roman sequence remain without reconciliation or renumbering. The quoted Pythagoras is a notebook title inside this one apparatus paragraph. Angels translates the literal anges confirmed independently in the native dedication crop; neither sages nor the historically tempting mânes replaces the actual print. Flighty friends follows volages amis without adding creatures or a demonstrative. The infinitive not to grieve remains distinct from the surrounding commands. The singular/plural French commands become ordinary English imperatives without inventing a new addressee. [Only a] renders printed [qu’une] , combining its restriction with the intact French ne ; [to the] renders printed [à la] . The source’s […] is an already printed omission and remains unfilled. The Latin Augenda præcepta receives a fresh literal translation through its qualified comma; the following parenthetic see Dacier remains roman. No Dacier or ancient witness has been independently verified. It (that) retains the source’s wording without identifying the consecrated object. The parenthetic fragment retains its dangling and. The extra hyphen in That is-: and semicolon in the later That is; reproduce the qualified native XV/XVII punctuation; an artifact explanation remains possible and no missing continuation is supplied. All eighteen printed italic runs have separate English counterparts; numbered labels and intervening commentary remain roman. The notebook count 59 was independently confirmed from the native numeral crop.
T365. The two repeated les jours de relations remain. The raised source call 1 follows festins and precedes the separate baseline period. The long source note is one distinct apparatus paragraph and does not change the main entry’s date.
T366. The entire long note is one apparatus paragraph, with its inline numbering and quotation structure retained. The editor conjecturally places an undated leaf around the February 10 entry; that inference does not become a new main-text date. The stated 17, 59, fifteen and 41st are not reconciled or renumbered. The small raised ordinal in 41ᵉ is compressed but supports a qualified e -shaped approximation. The sequence I, II, III, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII remains exactly as printed, without supplying missing numbered items. Infinitives, plural commands and singular commands retain their shifts, including Ne suis , Ne nourris and n’admets . The source has joyes , innocens , hirondèles , dissentions and unhyphenated vous même . The single l and grave-like mark in hirondèles are read from the native image; the narrow accent contour remains qualified. The 18 italic runs include the Latin Augenda præcepta, with a comma, while its following (vid. Dacier). is roman. The numbered labels and intervening commentary are roman. The quoted notebook title Pythagore is not a new main heading. [Qu’une] , […] and [à la] are already printed within the source apparatus; its […] is not a newly inferred reproduction loss. After XV’s C’est-à-dire , a separate short horizontal block is retained provisionally as an extra hyphen before the colon; a reproduction-artifact explanation remains possible. After XVII’s C’est à dire , the lower component is comma-like, supporting a qualified semicolon rather than an asserted normal colon. Independent bounded comparison agrees with these two qualified punctuation contours and the Latin comma; no familiar-text normalization is made. A direct narrow native recheck corrects the earlier transcription aux mânes to the printed aux anges : a , n , a descending g , e and s are visible. No circumflex is present. The correction follows the actual glyphs; a historically expected alternative does not replace them. The senior editor independently read the same native word. The structural specialist also independently confirms anges from the original-resolution crop.
T43. The first formulation and complete parenthetic alternative remain in one paragraph, with their changed word order and more-than-once/often distinction. A water and fled me preserve the unusual material and movement image. [Lips], [often] and [it] contextually complete the damaged French […]vres , […]ouvent and […]’est ; the English brackets encompass complete translated words rather than individual missing letters. The surviving est is rendered outside [it]. The comma after [often] follows the unexpected source comma. French couppe/coupe and the two abbondance spellings remain without English imitations. No mythological allusion is independently identified.
T367. The first couppe has two p , while the parenthetic coupe has one; both abbondance occurrences have two b . The parenthetic Autrement restatement remains in the same paragraph, including the comma after […]ouvent . At the damaged first lèvres opening, only vres is sufficiently complete; the preceding partial lower contour does not certify either the missing l or a complete accented è . The next loss leaves ouvent , with its abraded o contour qualified, and the final opening retains the apostrophe before est without a complete c . No missing French letter is restored.