“Lot, destiny, chance, providence, good fortune, misfortune, the good or evil genius, etc.” In our language we always suppose, despite ourselves, that everything is produced or comes about through the intention or power of some will. And indeed...
September 5.
— for I have a very loving head and a headstrong heart. Everything I admire is dear to me; and everything dear to me can no longer become wholly indifferent to me.
September 11. ( Villeneuve. )
Wisdom teaches men to use truth.
— a mind apt to spread rays, but not to concentrate them,
Wisdom that teaches us to judge truth; — its certainty, its extent, its application, its probable effect, and finally its usefulness and its timeliness.
Every legitimate authority must love both its extent and its limits.
September 14.
Rhetoric is a science of forms, an art of drawing and coloring. How figures are traced, how they should be joined or separated, what the most beautiful forms are, and finally the art of drawing our feelings and thoughts purely and skillfully and of painting them pleasingly. The forms of discourse are the object of rhetoric. There are also figures in grammar.
However much the world may change, morals and medicine do not change, or change little, because nature (or natures) are always the same. (The just and Christianity.)
September 25.
To see and recognize what is true wherever it is, in objections, in reproaches, and finally even in what is false itself. To see and recognize, too, what is just even in injustices.
October 1.
Knowledge that inflates the mind and knowledge that stiffens it.
October 8.
Our life is woven wind. Remember that my life is wind (says Job, chap. 7, 1 to 8). And ibid. : My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver.
October 11.
Fénelon. He writes tenderly. Of the art of writing tenderly.
T296. The entire opening list remains quoted. Always/despite-ourselves, produced/comes-about and intention/power remain distinct. Genius keeps the possible governing-spirit sense rather than artistic talent. The final And indeed remains unfinished, with no agent or doctrine supplied.
T297. The initial dash and for remain; head and heart retain their unusual attributed qualities. Very, all, no longer and wholly keep their degrees and scopes. Headstrong retains têtu ’s head-related force in the heart image rather than moving stubbornness back to the head.
T570. The substantial opening dash and lower-case causal car retain the fragment’s connection without supplying a prior clause. Head/heart, fort , the two tout formulations, semicolon, ne…plus and entièrement remain.
T298. Use retains user de without silently substituting telling or discovering truth. The Villeneuve circumstance belongs to the printed date line, not a new body sentence.
T571. The complete date and place circumstance remain on the same opening line. Villeneuve is italic with the date, unlike the earlier roman carnet circumstance; no separate heading, place identity or new date is inferred.
T299. The initial dash and nominal formulation remain. Rays and their spread/concentration preserve the optical image; no named thinker or physical light source is supplied. The final comma follows the qualified color-facsimile reading of the irregular mark after concentrer . A period distorted by adjacent ink remains possible; neither the mark’s exact typographic identity nor an intended continuation is certified.
T572. The lower-case nominal fragment retains its substantial opening dash and the capacity/contrast relation. The final mark after concentrer is provisionally transcribed as a comma: the color crop shows an irregular down-right ink form, while a period distorted by reproduction or adjoining ink remains possible. Its exact contour and intended punctuation are not certified; the senior editor independently inspected the complete color page and a native crop, agreeing with the qualified comma-like reading and the distorted-period alternative. No missing clause or continuation is supplied.
T300. The initial nominal relative construction remains without a main predicate. The six objects of judgment retain their separate force; timeliness renders à-propos contextually as fitness to the occasion, without restricting it to speed.
T573. The nominal/relative opening retains the semicolon followed by a substantial dash. All six repeated de relations remain, with probable and enfin . Étenduë has two distinct raised components over e ; à-propos has its printed hyphen. No governing predicate is supplied.
T301. Both preserves the coordination of extent and limits. Love is not silently weakened to observing or respecting limits; no particular institution is assigned.
T302. The how/what sequence stays a nominal series rather than receiving an invented main verb. Drawing and coloring, forms and figures, and rhetoric and grammar remain distinct. Purely preserves purement in the artistic analogy; American coloring is used.
T303. The concession, do-not/or-little distinction and separate final parenthesis remain. The plural are follows the source agreement after nature (or natures), retaining its shift between singular and plural rather than deleting either form. The just remains a collective nominal expression.
T576. A beau retains its concessive force; point and peu remain alternatives. Singular la nature is followed by parenthetic plural les natures and plural sont/les mêmes , without French agreement repair. The complete final parenthetic nominal phrase and capital Christianisme remain.
T304. Both infinitive openings and both see-and-recognize pairs remain. The two even constructions retain the extension into falsehood and injustices without making either wholly true or just.
T305. The two relative clauses remain a nominal fragment. Knowledge preserves the broad science sense; inflates and stiffens keep the contrasting bodily effects without silently identifying arrogance or dogmatism as their only meanings.
T578. The complete day 1 has visibly raised er . Both relative nominal terms remain without a new finite main predicate. Roidit is literal.
T306. The woven-wind image and the two Latin quotations retain their separate formulations. Only the two English counterparts of the Latin phrases are italic: the first ends without a period before the roman attribution, and the second includes its final period. The Latin is freshly translated here; web means woven fabric. The bounded Latin Job 7:1–8 control locates the excerpts in verses 7 and 6, in that order. Both verses continue beyond the wording quoted here. Verse 6 has quam a texente tela , while the printed excerpt has quam tela a texente . The source’s broader 1-to-8 reference and its excerpt order are retained. The specialist directly read Latin Job 7:1–8 electronically; no original Bible image or Joubert copy was inspected.
T579. The literal Latin and citation are not replaced from a biblical witness. The first italic phrase ends at mea without a terminal period before the roman parenthesis. The roman reference is exactly chap. 7, 1 ad. 8; it is inline body citation, not a source-apparatus note. Et ibid. and its following colon are roman. The second Latin clause is italic through its final period, including a texente succiditur. Its wording and comparative syntax remain as printed. Both quotations and all punctuation were read in the original-resolution color crop; the independent structural reviewer has now read the complete color page and original-size crop, agreeing with this literal wording and punctuation.
T307. The name, finite sentence and final Of fragment stay separate. Tenderly repeats rather than being varied for elegance; no work is named.
T580. The standalone name, finite statement and separate De fragment retain their three periods and repeated tendrement . Fénelon has an acute only over its first e .