Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal
13. Tacitus, _Ann._, iii, 25.
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[113] P. 84, l. 20. _The interest of the sovereign._--The view of
Thrasymachus in Plato's _Republic_, i, 338.
[114] P. 84, l. 21. _Another, present custom._--The doctrine of the
Cyrenaics. Montaigne, _Essais_, iii, 13.
[115] P. 84, l. 24. _The mystical foundation of its
authority._--Montaigne, _Essais_, iii, 13. See also ii, 12.
[116] P. 85, l. 2. _The wisest of legislators._--Plato. See _Republic_,
ii, 389, and v, 459.
[117] P. 85, l. 4. _Cum veritatem_, etc.--An inexact quotation from St.
Augustine, _De Civ. Dei_, iv, 27. Montaigne, _Essais_, ii, 12.
[118] P. 85, l. 17. _Veri juris._--Cicero, _De Officiis_, iii, 17.
Montaigne, _Essais_, iii, I.
[119] P. 86, l. 9. _When a strong man_, etc.--Luke xi, 21.
[120] P. 86, l. 26. _Because he who will_, etc.--See Epictetus, _Diss._,
iii, 12.
[121] P. 88, l. 19. _Civil wars are the greatest of evils._--Montaigne,
_Essais_, iii, 11.
[122] P. 89, l. 5. _Montaigne._--_Essais_, i, 42.
[123] P. 91, l. 8. _Savages laugh at an infant king._--An allusion to a
visit of some savages to Europe. They were greatly astonished to
see grown men obey the child king, Charles IX. Montaigne,
_Essais_, i, 30.
[124] P. 92, l. 8. _Man's true state._--See Montaigne, _Essais_, i, 54.
[125] P. 95, l. 3. _Omnis ... vanitati._--Eccles. iii, 19.
[126] P. 95, l. 4. _Liberabitur._--Romans viii, 20-21.
[127] P. 95, l. 4. _Saint Thomas._--In his Commentary on the Epistle of
St. James. James ii, 1.
[128] P. 96, l. 9. _The account of the pike and frog of Liancourt._--The
story is unknown. The Duc de Liancourt led a vicious life in
youth, but was converted by his wife. He became one of the firmest
supporters of Port-Royal.
[129] P. 97, l. 18. _Philosophers._--The Stoics.
[130] P. 97, l. 24. _Epictetus._--_Diss._, iv, 7.
[131] P. 97, l. 26. _Those great spiritual efforts_, etc.--On this, and
the following fragment, see Montaigne, _Essais_, ii, 29.
[132] P. 98, l. 3. _Epaminondas._--Praised by Montaigne, _Essais_, ii,
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