[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.