Of the need of beating women.
One can chastise what one loves. Thus with children.
But that implies the misery of scorning what one loves.
Of cuckoldom and of cuckolds. The misery of the cuckold. It springs from his pride, from a false conception of honor and of happiness, and from a love foolishly turned from God to be attributed to creatures. It is ever the worshipping animal deluded with its idol.
LVIII
Music conveys the idea of space. All the arts, more or less; since they are number and number is a translation of space.
Daily to wish to be the greatest of men!
LXI
Nations have great men only in spite of themselves.