"These were nearly all supported by arguments communicated beforehand...

At Bourges, everything was got through within five or six months at most."] [Footnote 6372: "Souvenirs" by Chancellor Pasquier, vol.I.p.
17.

Nowadays, "the young man who enters the world at twenty-two, twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, thinks that he has nothing more to learn; he commonly starts with absolute confidence in himself and profound disdain for whoever does not share in the ideas and opinions that he has adopted.

Full of confidence in his own force, taking himself at his own value, he is governed by one single thought, that of displaying this force and this estimate himself immediately so as to demonstrate what he is worth." This must have been written around 1830.

(SR.)] [Footnote 6373: This last quality is given by Sainte-Beuve.] [Footnote 6374: Dunoyer, "De la liberte du travail" (1845), II.,119.