Danno del conoscere la propria età.
The harm of knowing one's own age.
Friendship between two young people is impossible today.
104,1
Isolated satirical thoughts.
106,1
307,1
334,1
352,2
364,2
1075,2
1085,1
1362,2
1537,1
1583,2
1607,1
1926,2
2396,2
2481,1
2611,1
2653,3
3000,1
3891,1
3990,2
4023,1
4044,8
4062,1
4068,9
4075,3
[4075,2]
4090,2
4070,1
4095,2.3
4102,3
Isolated philosophical thoughts.
112,3
183,2
276,1
280,3
319,1
375,2
479,1
527,1
646,1
676,2
703,2
829,1
975,1
[975,2]
1011,1
1044,2
1175,1
1328,1
1521,2
1715,1
1970,2
2607,1
2686,1
2803,1
3029,1
3040,1
3432,1
3975,3
51,4
58,2
62,3
73,2
Why we feel enjoyment when reading about acts of greatness.
124,1
Paradoxes.
126,1
[126,2]
210,1
238,2
271,2
368,1
949,1
1329,2
1364,2
1507,1
1660,1
2157,1
2702,1
4096,2
4058,1
67,4
97,2
99,1
Parodies or corrections or applications of ancient maxims.
162,1
205,1
231,1
249,1
303,1-304,1
2451,1
2602,1
2680,1
3761,1
593,2
Quips and witticisms.
185,2
212,1
273,1
309,3
474,1
663,1.2
2588,1
4068,8
1,3
6,1
55,3
66,3
67,1
71,1
Learned men or men of genius in the modern age have very fragile bodies, unlike the ancients.
207,2
598,4
661,2
Literary glory.
227,1
263,2
271,1
273,3
306,1
[306,2]
346,1
[345,1]
347,1
455,1
593,2
643,3
826,1
1531,1
1708,1
1708,2
1788,1
1883,1
1927,1
2233,1
2453,1
2544,1
[2544,2]
2676,1
[2676,2]
2682,2
3382,2
3673,1
4108,4
46,1
83,2
Those who produce children must be sure that they are generating wicked people.
283,1
Ancient greatness, modern pettiness: durability of ancient works, decadence of the modern.
340,1
3435,1
Common egoism is the cause and necessity of individual egoism.
463,2
607,1
669,1
930,1
1100,1
1913,1
2436,1
2653,2
The practical difference between ancient and modern philosophers as deriving from the nature of their philosophies.
1018,1
Difference between the love of fatherland among the ancients and the moderns as deduced from the punishment of voluntary exile.
1361,3
Necessity of hiding one's defects and misfortunes; impossibility of finding compassion for them.
1673,1
2401,3
2485,1
Man gets used to everything, except to inaction and boredom.
1988,3
The same techniques are used for manipulating women, princes, academics; in every profession status must be gained at another's expense.
2155,4
2258,1
Error in trying to make everyone happy, whereas the opposite should be sought.
2271,1
Retreat of the 10,000, compared to the conquests of Mexico and Peru.
2479,2
That condition which cannot be improved, even when it is a most fortunate one, is most unhappy. A saying by Xenophon.
2526,1
Role of nature vs. art in being successful at anything.
2568,1
Length of Homer's poems; fertility of his imagination.
2976,1
Reasons for being either esteemed or unappreciated in the world; three kinds of people in this repsect.
3183,1
Man is appreciated to the extent that he knows how to laugh.
3360,1
How heroism is pretended even by the most impudent egoists, and by children who naturally belong to this category.
3480,1
643,2
Appearance is not only more necessary than substance but is the only necessary one.
4096,2
Three states of old age in three different epochs of humankind.
3520,1
Singular men of ancient and of modern times; the small degree of extraordinariness that is enough to be considered singular today.
38,2
Pain of afflictions alleviated by the thought of necessity. Example of a boy.
65,1
He did not like to speak with those he esteemed in the presence of others.
71,2
Anche il delitto è talvolta un atto eroico benchè non sia neppur di quei delitti forti e coraggiosi.
Sometimes even crime is a heroic act, even if it is not one of those strong and courageous crimes.
72,1