[1] Pensées, i. v. 8.
[2] Ib. i. vi. 16.
[3] Ib. i. vii. 6.
[4] M. Gilbert's edition of the Works and Correspondence of Vauvenargues (2 vols. Paris: Furne, 1857), ii. 133.
[5] Éloge de P.H. de Seytres. Œuv. i. 141-150.
[6] Œuv. ii. 233. See too p. 267.
[7] No. 579, i. 455.
[8] Réflexions sur Divers Sujets, i. 104.
[9] Œuv. ii. 249.
[10] Ib. ii. 265.
[11] Ib. ii. 266.
[12] Conseils à un Jeune Homme, i. 124.
[13] Œuv. ii. 252.
[14] Ib. ii. 272.
[15] Mémoires de Marmontel, vol. i. 189.
[16] The reader of Marmontel's Mémoires will remember the extraordinary and grotesque circumstances under which a younger brother of Mirabeau, (of l'ami des hommes, that is) appealed to the memory of Vauvenargues. See vol. i. 256-260.
[17] Œuv. i. 225-232.
[18] Letter to Saint-Vincens, ii. 146.
[19] No. 318.
[20] Napoleon said on some occasion, 'Il faut vouloir vivre et savoir mourir.' M. Littré prefaces the third volume of that heroic monument of learning and industry, his Dictionary of the French Language, by the words: 'He who wishes to employ his life seriously ought always to act as if he had long to live, and to govern himself as if he would have soon to die.'
[21] No. 223.
[22] No. 300.
[23] No. 264.
[24] Réflexions Critiques sur quelques Poètes, i. 237.
[25] Œuv. i. 248.
[26] Réflexions Critiques sur quelques Poètes, i. 238.
[27] Œuv. i. 243.
[28] Œuv. i. 275.
[29] Correspondance. Œuv. ii. 131, 207.
[30] Long-winded and tortuous and difficult to seize as Shaftesbury is as a whole, in detached sentences he shows marked aphoristic quality; e.g. 'The most ingenious way of becoming foolish is by a system;' 'The liker anything is to wisdom, if it be not plainly the thing itself, the more directly it becomes its opposite.'
[31] No. 278 (i. 411).
[32] Œuv. ii. 115.
[33] Ib. i. 87.
[34]
Doch
Zuweilen ist des Sinns in einer Sache
Auch mehr, als wir vermuthen; und es wäre
So unerhört doch nicht, dass uns der Heiland
Auf Wegen zu sich zöge, die der Kluge
Von selbst nicht leicht betreten würde.
Nathan der Weise, iii. 10.
[35] Reflections on the French Revolution, Works (ed. 1842), i. 414.
[36] Œuv. ii. 170.
[37] No. 111.
[38] Œuv. ii. 74.
[39] No. 285.
[40] 'A man may as well pretend to cure himself of love by viewing his mistress through the artificial medium of a microscope or prospect, and beholding there the coarseness of her skin and monstrous disproportion of her features, as hope to excite or moderate any passion by the artificial arguments of a Seneca or an Epictetus.'—Hume's Essays (xviii. The Sceptic).
[41] Œuv. i. 163.
[42] Nos. 296-298, 148.
[43] Sur le Libre Arbitre. Œuv. i. 199.
[44] Politique Positive, iii. 589.
[45] Ib. i. 194.
[46] Politique Positive, 205.
[47] Ib. 206, 207.
[48] No. 330.
[49] Nos. 462, 463.
[50] Correspondance. Œuv. ii. 163.
[51] Œuv. i. 310.
[52] Œuv. i. 325.
[53] Œuv. i. 326.
[54] No. 236.
[55] Œuv. ii. 188.