March 3.
A singular thing! the most intelligent peoples are those whose religions are the most complicated and whose theology is consequently best fitted to exercise the mind! (Without Greek duplicity, however.)
This is because, when one cannot believe there has been revelation, one believes nothing fixedly, firmly, invariably.
March 5.
The Genevans. Cold souls in cold bodies. When austerity is useless to the soul, it is worth no more, and perhaps less, than its opposite. Only the tender and ardent virtues that can result from it recommend it, and recommend it sufficiently. But not all regularity is virtue, though it usurps its appearance.
March 8.
— That is not a virtue; it is only a beauty.
March 13.
The book spoken of in Bacon’s Atlantis, which everyone read as though it were written in their own language.
March 19.
In morals, to reach the middle, one must aspire to the summit. And in literature, on the contrary, (perhaps) to reach the summit easily, one must aspire only to the middle. Every effort wears out the strength for climbing.
March 30.
To illuminate a truth (however old or well known it may be), to make it more intelligible, to show it in a more beautiful light that attracts attention, to give it a new luster: that is to spread light.
We shall see, not with our eyes, but with our sight; we shall hear, not with our ear, but with our hearing. We shall no longer have our senses, but we shall have our faculties, which are far more excellent and will no longer need them.
March 5.
The “Thoughts and Maxims of the Prisoner of Saint Helena” do him no honor. There is neither wit, nor good sense, nor genius in them, though there are some truths.
Sunday, April 30 .
When Providence hands the world over to man’s freedom, the greatest of all scourges...
May 3.
“Father and mother you shall honor.” Honor the State and the Church, if you wish to live. — The State!!
May 18.
Places die as men do (although they appear to endure).
T14. The opening fragment, all three superlative degrees, consequently and whole qualifying parenthesis remain. The source’s generalization is not presented as an independently established historical claim. French retains intelligens without t and literal le plus propre beside théologie . English keeps lowercase the after the opening exclamation. March 3 is the complete printed date.
T15. The opening causal link, cannot, has-been tense, nothing and three distinct adverbs remain without a new antecedent or explanation.
T16. Both nominal fragments, repeated cold, when, no-more/perhaps-less comparison, can and repeated recommendation remain. Initial Only explicitly restricts the virtues that recommend austerity, corresponding to feminine plural seules , rather than restricting where those virtues can originate. Not all preserves the partial negation; usurps retains the final personification. No assessment of Genevans is added. French retains plain capital Ames and final-s assés . English shares the worth predicate across the two comparative terms and supplies the commas around and perhaps less and before the repeated and recommend.
T57. The complete 5, plain capital Ames , the paired froides /froids forms and comparative/modal relations remain. Assés ends in s , not normalized z . Aus-/térité and all lower left starts are identifiable complete in color; no continuation passes to 900. The whole nine-entry topology, named upper marks, margins, title elevation, two italic extents and damaged dates/openings have been read in color with two native 431 top comparisons. These source-specialist contour readings retain every stated uncertainty; no complete damaged initial or uncertain upper-mark shape is certified beyond those limits.
T17. The opening dash, negative and only remain. English semicolon separates the source’s comma-linked clauses without supplying an antecedent for that.
T18. The relative fragment, everyone and hypothetical comparison remain. Their own language is an ordinary gender-neutral explicit rendering of sa langue . Atlantis follows the notebook’s roman Atlantide without expanding it to an externally verified bibliographical title or borrowing Bacon’s wording.
T59. The nominal head and relative clauses retain their incomplete independent syntax. L’Atlantide is roman and is not expanded to a verified external title. Complete March 13 remains.
T19. The repeated middle/summit, two obligations, initial And, on-the-contrary relation and full parenthetic perhaps remain, including the source comma before that parenthesis. Easily, only and every retain their scopes. The last sentence preserves the counterintuitive wearing-out image. Both source faîte forms retain the circumflex reading qualified in the collation.
T60. Both faîte occurrences show compact circumflex marks in original-size color; the first crop clipped the second word, which was separately viewed in full. The two il faut constructions, restrictive qu’au , aisément , tout and full perhaps parenthesis remain. Complete March 19 is printed.
T20. The four infinitive actions, full concessive parenthesis, two comparatives and new remain. English colon marks the source’s comma-linked definition; the repeated illumination metaphor is not replaced with a claim of discovery. French retains plain initial Eclaircir and the diaeresis spelling connuë .
T61. Eclaircir has a plain capital E ; connuë has two upper e components. The concessive parenthesis, four initial infinitives, two comparatives, nouveau and the French comma before c’est remain. Complete March 30 precedes the later printed March 5 without correction.
T21. All future assertions, eyes versus singular ear, repeated our, both no-longer terms and the intensified comparison remain. Present are renders sont amid the future predicates. English adds the grammatical comma before which; final them refers to the senses. The source retains vuë with its e -diaeresis and ouïe with its i -diaeresis. The spiritual distinction is preserved as Joubert’s thought without explanatory completion.
T22. The roman quoted title is freshly translated from the French, whose Sainte Hélène is unhyphenated. The negative judgment, all three absent qualities, though and some remain; the unnamed him is not expanded. March 5 stays after March 30 and the intervening undated paragraph in source order.
T63. The complete March 5 date occurs after March 30 and one undated paragraph; it is neither moved nor changed. The quoted title is roman; Sainte Hélène is unhyphenated. All three ni terms, indefinite lui and concessive quelques remain.
S1. Source editor’s annotation Variant: “When divine providence hands the world over to human freedom, the greatest of all scourges.”
T23. The dependent When opening remains without an invented main consequence. Greatest/all and the final printed ellipsis remain. The separate variant adds divine and uses human; those differences are not imported into this text. Capital Providence follows the main source, while the variant has lowercase providence . The complete Sunday April 30 date owns the raised source call after avril and before its period; that call is not moved into the body.
T28. The source-editor label remains outside the closed quotation, and the complete annotation is roman. Lowercase providence, divine and human distinguish this version from the main text; its final period is retained rather than importing the main ellipsis. The dependent When opening has no supplied main consequence. The annotation belongs to the call in the Sunday April 30 date heading; it is not assigned an independent date.
T64. The full weekday/date, capital Providence , unfinished Quand construction and final printed three-dot ellipsis remain. The raised 1 call follows avril before the separate date period; it is not moved into the paragraph.
T24. The opening future command is freshly translated from the French, without borrowing a Bible translation or adding a possessive absent there. You is ordinary English grammatical supply for honoreras , not a recovered source word. The source period after the closing quotation mark moves inside it in American English. French retains plain Etat and Eglise . The direct second command, condition, dash and repeated State with two exclamation marks remain.
T66. The source quotation has no explicit subject or possessive; its period follows the closing guillemet. Etat/Eglise have plain capital E . The imperative, condition, dash and double final exclamation remain. Complete May 3 is printed.
T25. The analogy and full concessive parenthesis remain. Endure renders subsister without adding a physical or historical explanation. The source keeps paroissent with no certified circumflex; the sub-/sister line wrap is complete. The printed date is May 18.
T67. The complete May 18 date, concessive parenthesis and sub-/sister wrap remain. Paroissent has an ordinary dot-like i mark, not a certified circumflex.