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← ExitThe Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, Volume II

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YEAR 1821

Add to the manuscript —.

Wisdom, etc. Add.: whoever knows enough at each instant of what he must believe to do well knows enough of what must be known.

Chapter III. I take up my joy and my wings again, and fly to other lights. An object, whatever it may be, is more or less agreeable to us according as it is at all its points, etc.

— Explain nothing, and above all evaluate nothing at its intrinsic rate, at that secret and sacred rate which, placed in the bosom and at the center of each thing like a summary of itself, alone marks exactly, when deciphered with the aid of this light, its true weight and just price.

T95.The infinitive instruction stays in Joubert’s text. Its terminal dash and period remain; no manuscript identity is invented.

T150.Four distinct indented paragraphs remain one undated source owner. The manuscript instruction and Chapter III stay inside the body, not as edition instructions or identified internal links. The terminal dash-plus-period of the first paragraph remains. The first assez and later literal assés are distinct: original-size color and native 441 support the acute e and final s in assés. Plain-i scait, croye, scavoir and joye remain. In the French source, no comma is printed before et je vole or before the later etc.; the incomplete comparison is not completed. The initial negative infinitives, repeated taux, both place phrases, sole/exact qualification and final weight/price relation remain. The raised call 1 follows final prix before its separate baseline period. A rule and ANNÉE 1823 follow the complete fourth paragraph; those following entries belong to batch 041. All four paragraphs are roman.

T96.The inline roman Add. cue, each instant, two enough terms and belief/action distinction remain. The source’s first assez and later assés are distinct literal spellings; scait, croye and scavoir also remain in French. The repeated necessity does not become a claim to complete knowledge.

T97.The manuscript chapter label and Roman III remain inline. The repeated first-person renewal, wings, other lights, whatever and more-or-less remain; the unfinished final comparison is not supplied with a predicate. Literal joye remains in French. English supplies the comma before and fly and the comma before etc.; neither is printed at the corresponding French position.

S1.Source editor’s annotationThe notebook ends with this, on its last page. And there is no other notebook for the year 1821. There is no notebook for the year 1822. The next notebook begins thus: as a title, “January”; then: “15 January 1823.” It is possible that notebooks have been lost.

T98.The initial dash, negative infinitives, above all, repeated rate, bosom/center and weight/price distinctions remain. The 1798 Académie entry gives taux senses of an established commodity price, a regulated interest rate and an assessed tax amount. Rate here retains a valuation or assessment sense and the source’s lexical distinction from prix, rendered price; this is a contextual choice for the unusual intrinsic metaphor, not a unique dictionary equivalence or a claim that the French terms never overlap. The imperative-shaped English renderings do not supply a missing governing clause for the French infinitives. This is the fourth paragraph of one undated manuscript-instruction unit. Its annotation call follows final price before the period; the source annotation remains separate.

T99.This is the source editor’s statement, separate from Joubert’s text. It reports unavailable notebooks and only the possibility of loss; no certainty of destruction, 1822 section or missing entries are invented. The two quoted opening labels remain in order and stay inline in this annotation rather than dating the preceding main paragraphs. The semicolon follows the first closing quotation in both languages. French places the period after the second closing quotation, while English moves it inside. The complete annotation is roman.

T151.One complete roman source-editor paragraph closes this notebook. Its statements about 1821 and 1822 and the merely possible loss remain distinct; no missing entries or 1822 heading are invented. In the French source, the quoted title Janvier is followed by a semicolon outside its close. The French quoted 15 janvier 1823 is followed by a period outside its close. These source-apparatus dates remain inline in the annotation, not dates assigned to the preceding main paragraphs. Original-size color and native 441 support both boundaries.