June 25.
The mind is something mobile whose direction is changed by all the winds that blow constantly.
It is force and right that govern all things in this world, force while awaiting right.
For expression, it is bearing or the face that does everything in painting. In Rembrand, it is bearing.
Those eyes in which there is mind, soul and body.
June 27.
In truth, it would be better if they had not been born.
The passions draw us away from religion by giving us a kind of happiness that does not come from it.
July 4.
That: one must stay on one’s anchors, keep one’s ballast (without drifting). To provide oneself with anchors and ballast, that is, with fixed and constant opinions.
The Arabian tales. I will not say with an art, but with a [skill].
Art is skill reduced to precepts, to theory.
July […].
Metaphysics makes the mind singularly firm. That is [why] nothing is sometimes so cruel as a metaphysician. “To [convert] a doctor is an impossible work.”
July 16.
An image can be good and sufficient to produce a feeling (an affection), but not a conclusion.
July 19.
— caring little about being just, provided they are exact in the reasonings they make.
July 23.
Of the wit that comes from the passions, from hatred, from ambition, etc. (the spirit of mockery, Voltaire). And Of that which comes from our pure intelligence.
T297. Mobile retains the motion image, all and constantly retain their scope, and the passive direction change remains. No particular passion is substituted for the winds. English uses a grammatical relative without a separate and for the French et dont ; the relation is retained.
T298. Both force and right repeat, with all things and this-world limits intact. The final nominal phrase retains its temporal waiting relation; it is not a statement of current law.
T649. The cleft, force/right coordination, plural règlent , universal toutes and final waiting construction remain. No ordering principle beyond the printed text is inserted.
T299. Bearing contextually distinguishes contenance , a figure’s outward carriage or pose, from the face. Both terms and the final repeated bearing remain. Rembrand follows the printed spelling without adding a final t or identifying a painting.
T300. The demonstrative relative fragment and three distinct terms remain. Body is retained in its unusual relation to eyes instead of being explained away as merely physical beauty.
T651. The demonstrative nominal relative construction, repeated partitives and three coordinated qualities remain.
T301. The conditional judgment and negative completed birth remain. The plural referent is not identified, and no particular historical group is inferred from neighboring entries.
T652. Complete 27 remains. The qualifying opening, conditional comparative and negative past-subjunctive predicate remain without naming the plural referent.
T302. The causal means, a-kind-of qualification and negative source of happiness remain. English supplies the first us from the explicit nous in the following clause; the final English “it” refers back to religion.
T653. The causal participial relation, nous , une espèce and negative relative clause remain. The source does not print an object after éloignent ; none is restored in French.
T303. The opening That and colon, obligation, two nautical objects and parenthetic absence of drifting remain. English uses a period for the printed comma after the parenthesis. The following formulation remains infinitival and repeats both objects before interpreting them as opinions. It remains inside the same physical paragraph; source anchres is not normalized in French.
T654. Complete 4 juillet remains. Both anchres literally contain ch ; original-size color confirms both. In the French source, the initial Que /colon, obligation, two nautical nouns, full sans parenthesis, comma and capital Se on the continuation line remain within one physical paragraph. C’est à dire is unhyphenated, and the con-/stantes wrap is complete. The bounded independent comparison agrees with the new 836 named spellings, complete right-edge words, reversed/renewed dates and punctuation, with all contour qualifications retained. All text on the page is roman.
T305. The named tales remain a nominal opening without a specified collection. Future not-say, the contrast and both indefinite articles keep the deliberately incomplete formulation; no verb such as written is supplied. [Skill] contextually completes habi[…]eté . The following definition’s skill corresponds to an intact habileté and is not bracketed.
T306. The definition remains its own second paragraph. Repeated to preserves both precepts and theory; reduced is not made a derogatory judgment or assigned a particular pedagogical system.
T307. Singularly, sometimes, the comparative negative and final quotation remain. Doctor preserves the learned or doctrinal title in the conversion context, without restricting it to a physician or supplying a specific source for the saying. The clipped day remains unresolved. [Why] and [convert] contextually complete pour[…]uoi and Conver[…]ir . To is ordinary English infinitive grammar, not a missing French word. The July day remains wholly unreadable.
T308. Can, both qualities, the parenthetic affection and not-conclusion distinction remain. Affection is an inward movement or state here, not necessarily fondness for a person.
T657. Complete 16 remains. The wrapped senti-/ment retains identifiable m under the margin abrasion; no additional word loss is certified. Both adjectives, the full parenthesis and negative contrast remain.
T309. The opening dash and participial fragment remain. Just and exact stay distinct, with the condition and plural reasonings preserved; no subject is identified. English omits the source comma before dans , without changing the scope of in the reasonings they make.
T310. Wit is contextual to the mockery/Voltaire contrast, while the parenthetic esprit de mocquerie is rendered spirit of mockery. The three from terms, the parenthesis and two nominal Of openings remain, including the second capital. No particular work is cited.
T659. Complete 23 remains. Original-size color/native 369 support an opening parenthesis followed by l’esprit , not a contextual d’esprit ; its curved contour is degraded but identifiable. The later intelligence retains a qualified initial i . Literal mocquerie and capital De after Et remain. The two De phrases are not completed by a supplied main predicate.