June 23.

And, mark it well, when one has so much honor, one has no morals, because one puts all one’s conscience into one’s pride.

L-c+s-. They come out of them full of ambitions and with no other virtue than that of a certain honor hostile to all morals.

June 24.

Thirst for blood. An illness with which we are afflicted.

It is ridiculous and blameworthy, when one is not an actor (in events), when one is only a candle snuffer or a mere stagehand, to show oneself to the spectators, to appear on the stage and to intervene in the play.

The oath is owed to right and cannot be refused to force, whose image is this?

Solitude with God, and the reasoner in solitude.

June 25.

It is the nature of minds, it is their natural light, and not their degree of strength (variable like health), that makes their true worth, their quality, their beauty and their excellence.

Natural light, — or sense of the true, sense of the good, sense of the beautiful; — variously distributed; And intrinsic beauty, granted to the various minds etc., makes their excellence and worth.

June 24.

God could make an entire atmosphere with a single bubble of air. Why! Does a child not make a soap bubble with a single drop of water? Everything comes from a breath, when that breath gives life.

That: one can escape certain errors only from above, that is, by raising one’s mind above human things. — Through the roof or from above; through the window or from the side; through the door or by ordinary means of solution.

What we call soul in men is invariable. But what we call mind is very changeable and is not the same at every age, in every situation, or every day.

Good humor and good sense, those sources of felicities.

The contempt that makes contemptible, the respect that makes respectable.