...like either Aeolian lyres when they give out their [sounds], or the flower of some plant when it exhales its odors.
I like philosophy (and especially metaphysics) neither quadrupedal [nor] bipedal; — I want it winged and singing
Let metaphysics, then, have wings.
March […]1.
It is the roundness of sense that makes the verse of thought: the roundness [of] sense in words; this roundness in clauses and this roundness [in] words. (See above. )
March […]2.
There are very grave matters and very important questions in which [the] principal ideas, and the decisive ideas, must come from [feelings]. If they come from elsewhere, if one admits ideas of another kind, [everything] will be lost.
You go to truth through poetry, and I arrive at poetry through truth.
March 13.
— always occupied with the duties of others, never with his own, alas!
March 14.
The verse line and the verset ; and after the verse line, the verset . Besides, it is not cutting and shortening, but roundness, completeness, that makes the true verset . — A form of this kind is to dialogues, for example, and to Plato what the stanza is to the hexameter, what Tasso is to Virgil.
The four faculties, taste, judgment, imagination and reason. One must consult all four, taken together and separately.
like a rector followed by the four faculties... (Boileau.)
Thus must the wise writer proceed.
— one is taken with them by surprise, in some way, and because they are newer (the turns of phrase): to choose well, one must wait until they are new like the others and time has taken this bloom of novelty from them.
March 15.
To the four faculties, memory (which is like their secretary, their clerk or their writer). Rolled for a long time in memory. There the rounding takes place, and at last the polish and the finish and the luster are acquired; let us almost say, the calendered finish.
What is pleasing always has something venturesome about it.
T148. The printed opening ellipsis and subjectless comparison remain. Either/or, the lyres’ sounds and the flower’s exhalation preserve the two images. This starts after a source separator and is not joined to the preceding page’s entry. No particular plant is identified. [Sounds] contextually renders damaged […]ons ; the opening three dots remain a separate printed ellipsis, not a source loss.
T149. The first-person preferences, parenthetic especially, two denied forms of locomotion and paired winged/singing qualities remain. The source’s visible lack of a final mark is preserved after canonical collation; no analogy is replaced by an abstract description of philosophical method. [Nor] renders damaged […]i , distinct from the intact initial ne and first ni . The final chantante has no visible terminal mark; no authorial intention is inferred.
T150. The separate exhortation and then inference remain. This is a second paragraph of the same unit, not an added title or independent dated entry.
T151. The cleft, four roundness formulations and repeated words remain. Clauses contextually renders incises as divisions of discourse, without limiting them to modern parenthetical asides. The backward pointer remains within the body with its source emphasis; no exact destination or missing day digit is supplied. English uses a colon for the source semicolon after pensée . [Of] corresponds broadly to damaged […]u , the contraction du ; English sense has no separate definite article here. [In] renders […]ans . The day remains […]1 mars. , without a supplied earlier numeral. Only See above. inherits italic Vide supra. ; parentheses remain roman.
T152. Both degrees, principal/decisive distinction, obligation, two conditional clauses and future loss remain. English ideas in the second condition renders the implicit plural object en rather than recovering an omitted French noun. No example or doctrine is supplied. [The], [feelings] and [everything] render […]es , senti[…]ens and […]out with whole English counterparts. French letters remain missing and the date remains […]2 mars.
T517. The terminal 2 retains its upper curve, descending diagonal and base, but the preceding date components are not complete. The line openings preserve es , ens after senti- , and out . The l , first m component and t remain damaged rather than restored; the incomplete first m arch is not certified as a whole letter. The two degrees très/fort , repeated idées , obligation doivent , two conditional clauses and final future predicate remain. The comma after idées before et is literal. Où retains a qualified grave contour. All text is roman.
T153. The second/first-person contrast, go/arrive distinction and complete reversed truth/poetry relation remain. No interlocutor is identified. Both historical poësie spellings retain their qualified upper marks in French.
T154. The opening dash, subjectless participle, always/never opposition and lament remain. His own supplies the ordinary English possessive for siens without naming the person.
T155. Verset retains the distinct technical term instead of collapsing both vers and verset into verse. All four opening terms, after, not/but, roundness/completeness and both analogies remain. The source’s genre is rendered as a form; no particular Platonic work or metrically fixed definition of verset is supplied. The complete 1798 Académie Verset entry describes a short section usually carrying a complete sense, chiefly in Scripture, and also gives a liturgical use. This supports the distinction without fixing Joubert’s verset metrically or identifying a particular Platonic work.
T520. The complete 14 is retained. Original-size color/native 357 retain qualified complete initial p/f/e/T in pas , fait , exemple and Tasse ; adjoining thin marginal material does not establish extra words or require new gaps. The repeated vers/verset , after relation, negative contrast, singular fait , comma-separated rondeur/complément and two comparative mappings remain. Stance and the names retain their literal spelling. All text is roman.
T156. All four named powers, the obligation and together/separately distinction remain. The internal lowercase verse line and its attribution stay inside this one paragraph pair, with hard line breaks for the centered line and prose resuming afterward. Faculty retains its mental and academic senses in the comparison. No unprinted quotation marks or independently authenticated poem locus are supplied. The French masculine tous and pris remain unchanged after facultés ; English does not manufacture agreement damage or extra paragraph boundaries.
T521. One physical paragraph contains the opening prose, one centered roman verse line and prose resuming at the continuation margin. The two internal line breaks record that display without manufacturing further paragraph pairs. The verse begins with lowercase comme , has a printed ellipsis, and is followed by a roman parenthetic attribution. The four named faculties and literal masculine tous/pris after feminine facultés remain; no agreement correction is supplied. The obligation, ensemble/séparément pairing and final Ainsi clause remain. Il and Ainsi retain identifiable complete foreground initials. All text is roman.
T157. The initial dash, surprised attraction, qualification, newer and explanatory parenthesis remain. New like the others retains the visible nouvelles comme les autres rather than silently repairing it to old or no longer new. The obligation, waiting and lost bloom keep the temporal comparison visible; canonical collation confirms the repeated nouvelles , with its intact local contours and no silent repair.
T522. The initial dash/lowercase on , quelque limitation, causal clause, comparative plus and repeated nouvelles remain; the second nouvelles is not silently replaced by a different adjective. The complete les tournures parenthesis is followed by a colon. The left-margin qu’elles/attendre/leur retain identifiable q/a/l contours in color/native 357 and are not reproduction gaps. The final ôté has a qualified circumflex. The obligation and both subordinate clauses remain. All text is roman.
T158. The opening addition remains a fragment rather than an invented imperative. All three office roles, the subjectless Rolled and long duration remain. Rounding, polish, finish, luster and the qualified calendered image stay distinct. Calendered finish renders substantivized calandré with an ordinary English noun; the complete 1798 Académie Calandrer and Calandre entries support the cloth-pressing and lustering image, without selecting a particular machine. English are acquired uses ordinary plural agreement where the source has singular s’acquiert before its coordinated nouns. The repeated and now retains all three coordinated finishing terms. The source period sits inside its closing parenthesis; English places the sentence period outside the parenthesis. No source punctuation is changed.
T523. The complete 15 is retained. In the French source, the parenthesis includes a period before its closing mark. The initial nominal formulation, secretary/clerk/editor alternatives, subjectless Roulé phrase, repeated mémoire , coordinated singular predicates and triple et sequence remain. The lus-/tré wrap is complete: tr and accented é remain at the ordinary left column. The other left openings le/se retain complete qualified foreground forms without additional gaps. Calandré has its printed final acute accent; presque remains. All text is roman.
T159. Always and something remain. Venturesome contextually interprets hazardé as ventured or exposed to risk, without reducing it to random chance; the degree and lexical shade remain available for review. What is pleasing recasts the nominal agrément as an adjectival English clause.