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,