[Footnote 4:  M. Gilbert’s edition of the Works and Correspondence of Vauvenargues (2 vols.  Paris:  Furne, 1857), ii. 133.]

[Footnote 5:  Eloge de P.H. de Seytres. OEuv. i. 141-150.]

[Footnote 6:  OEuv. ii. 233.  See too p. 267.]

[Footnote 7:  No. 579, i. 455.]

[Footnote 8:  Reflexions sur Divers Sujets, i. 104.]

[Footnote 9:  OEuv. ii. 249.]

[Footnote 10:  Ib. ii. 265.]

[Footnote 11:  Ib. ii. 266.]

[Footnote 12:  Conseils a un Jeune Homme, i. 124.]

[Footnote 13:  OEuv. ii. 252.]

[Footnote 14:  Ib. ii. 272.]

[Footnote 15:  Memoires de Marmontel, vol. i. 189.]

[Footnote 16:  The reader of Marmontel’s Memoires 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.]

[Footnote 17:  OEuv. i. 225-232.]

[Footnote 18:  Letter to Saint-Vincens, ii. 146.]

[Footnote 19:  No. 318.]

[Footnote 20:  Napoleon said on some occasion, ’Il faut vouloir vivre et savoir mourir.’  M. Littre 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.’]

[Footnote 21:  No. 223.]

[Footnote 22:  No. 300.]

[Footnote 23:  No. 264.]

[Footnote 24:  Reflexions Critiques sur quelques Poetes, i. 237.]

[Footnote 25:  OEuv. i. 248.]

[Footnote 26:  Reflexions Critiques sur quelques Poetes, i. 238.]

[Footnote 27:  OEuv. i. 243.]

[Footnote 28:  OEuv. i. 275.]

[Footnote 29:  Correspondance. OEuv. ii. 131, 207.]

[Footnote 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.’]

[Footnote 31:  No. 278 (i. 411).]

[Footnote 32:  OEuv. ii. 115.]

[Footnote 33:  Ib. i. 87.]

[Footnote 34: 
                                     Doch
    Zuweilen ist des Sinns in einer Sache
    Auch mehr, als wir vermuthen; und es waere
    So unerhoert doch nicht, dass uns der Heiland
    Auf Wegen zu sich zoege, die der Kluge
    Von selbst nicht leicht betreten wuerde.

Nathan der Weise, iii. 10.]

[Footnote 35:  Reflections on the French Revolution, Works (ed. 1842), i. 414.]