(De Pradt, p.219.)] [Footnote 1223: The reader may find his comprehension of the author's meaning strengthened by the following translation of a passage from his essay on Jouffroy (Philosophes classiques du XIXth Siecle," 3rd ed.): "What is a man, master of himself?
He is one who, dying with thirst, refrains from swallowing a cooling draft, merely moistening his lips: who insulted in public, remains calm in calculating his most appropriate revenge; who in battle, his nerves excited by a charge, plans a difficult maneuver, thinks it out, and writes it down with a lead-pencil while balls are whistling around him, and sends it to his colonels.

In other words, it is a man in whom the deliberate and abstract idea of the greatest good is stronger than all other ideas and sensations.

The conception of the greatest good once attained, every dislike, every species of indolence, every fear, every seduction, every agitation, are found weak.

The tendency which arise from the idea of the greatest good constantly dominates all others and determines all actions." TR.] [Footnote 1224: Bourrienne, I.21.] [Footnote 1225: Yung, 1., 125.] [Footnote 1226: Madame de Remusat, I., 267 .-- Yung, II., 109.

On his return to Corsica he takes upon himself the government of the whole family.