36. See also iii, 1.

[133] P. 98, l. 17. _Plerumque gratae principibus vices._--Horace, _Odes_, III, xxix, 13, cited by Montaigne, _Essais_, i, 42. Horace has _divitibus_ instead of _principibus_. [134] P. 99, l. 4. _Man is neither angel nor brute_, etc.--Montaigne, _Essais_, iii, 13. [135] P. 99, l. 14. _Ut sis contentus_, etc.--A quotation from Seneca. See Montaigne, _Essais_, ii, 3. [136] P. 99, l. 21. _Sen._ 588.--Seneca, _Letter to Lucilius_, xv. Montaigne, _Essais_, iii, I. [137] P. 99, l. 23. _Divin._--Cicero, _De Divin._, ii, 58. [138] P. 99, l. 25. _Cic._--Cicero, _Tusc_, ii, 2. The quotation is inaccurate. Montaigne, _Essais_, ii, 12. [139] P. 99, l. 27. _Senec._--Seneca, _Epist._, 106. [140] P. 99, l. 28. _Id maxime_, etc.--Cicero, _De Off._, i, 31. [141] P. 99, l. 29. _Hos natura_, etc.--Virgil, _Georgics_, ii, 20. [142] P. 99, l. 30. _Paucis opus_, etc.--Seneca, _Epist._, 106. [143] P. 100, l. 3. _Mihi sic usus_, etc.--Terence, _Heaut._, I, i, 28. [144] P. 100, l. 4. _Rarum est_, etc.--Quintilian, x, 7. [145] P. 100, l. 5. _Tot circa_, etc.--M. Seneca, _Suasoriae_, i, 4. [146] P. 100, l. 6. _Cic._--Cicero, _Acad._, i, 45. [147] P. 100, l. 7. _Nec me pudet_, etc.--Cicero, _Tusc._, i, 25. [148] P. 100, l. 8. _Melius non incipiet._--The rest of the quotation is _quam desinet_. Seneca, _Epist._, 72. [149] P. 100, l. 25. _They win battles._--Montaigne, in his _Essais_, ii, 12, relates that the Portuguese were compelled to raise the siege of Tamly on account of the number of flies. [150] P. 100, l. 27. _When it is said_, etc.--By Descartes. [151] P. 102, l. 20. _Arcesilaus._--A follower of Pyrrho, the sceptic. He lived in the third century before Christ. [152] P. 105, l. 20. _Ecclesiastes._--Eccles. viii, 17. [153] P. 106, l. 16. _The academicians._--Dogmatic sceptics, as opposed to sceptics who doubt their own doubt. [154] P. 107, l. 10. _Ego vir videns._--Lamentations iii, I. [155] P. 108, l. 26. _Evil is easy_, etc.--The Pythagoreans considered the good as certain and finite, and evil as uncertain and infinite. Montaigne, _Essais_, i, 9. [156] P. 109, l. 7. _Paulus AEmilius._--Montaigne, _Essais_, i, 19. Cicero, _Tusc._, v, 40. [157] P. 109, l. 30. _Des Barreaux._--Author of a licentious love song. He was born in 1602, and died in 1673. Balzac call him "the new Bacchus." [158] P. 110, l. 16. _For Port-Royal._--The letters, A. P. R., occur in several places, and are generally thought to indicate what will be afterwards treated in lectures or conferences at Port-Royal, the famous Cistercian abbey, situated about eighteen miles from Paris. Founded early in the thirteenth century, it acquired its greatest fame in its closing years. Louis XIV was induced to believe it heretical; and the monastery was finally demolished in 1711. Its downfall was no doubt brought about by the Jesuits. [159] P. 113, l. 4. _They all tend to this end._--Montaigne, _Essais_, i, 19. [160] P. 119, l. 15. _Quod ergo_, etc.--Acts xvii, 23. [161] P. 119, l. 26. _Wicked demon._--Descartes had suggested the possibility of the existence of an _evil genius_ to justify his method of universal doubt. See his _First Meditation_. The argument is quite Cartesian. [162] P. 122, l. 18. _Deliciae meae_, etc.--Proverbs viii, 31. [163] P. 122, l. 18. _Effundam spiritum_, etc.--Is. xliv, 3; Joel ii, 28. [164] P. 122, l. 19. _Dii estis._--Ps. lxxxii, 6. [165] P. 122, l. 20. _Omnis caro faenum._--Is. xl, 6. [166] P. 122, l. 20. _Homo assimilatus_, etc.--Ps. xlix, 20. [167] P. 124, l. 24. _Sapientius est hominibus._--1 Cor. i, 25. [168] P. 125, l. 1. _Of original sin._--The citations from the Rabbis in this fragment are borrowed from a work of the Middle Ages, entitled _Pugio christianorum ad impiorum perfidiam jugulandam et maxime judaeorum_. It was written in the thirteenth century by Raymond Martin, a Catalonian monk. An edition of it appeared in 1651, edited by Bosquet, Bishop of Lodeve. [169] P. 125, l. 24. _Better is a poor and wise child_, etc.--Eccles. iv, 13. [170] P. 126, l. 17. _Nemo ante_, etc.--See Ovid, _Met._, iii, 137, and Montaigne, _Essais_, i, 18. [171] P. 127, l. 10. _Figmentum._--Borrowed from the Vulgate, Ps. ciii, 14. [172] P. 128. l. 5. _All that is in the world_, etc.--First Epistle of St. John, ii, 16. [173] P. 128, l. 7. _Wretched is_, etc.--M. Faugere thinks this thought is taken from St. Augustine's Commentary on Ps. cxxxvii, _Super flumina Babylonis._ [174] P. 129, l. 6. _Qui gloriatur_, etc.--1 Cor. i, 31. [175] P. 130, l. 13. _Via, veritas._--John xiv, 6. [176] P. 130, l. 14. _Zeno._--The original founder of Stoicism. [177] P. 130, l. 15. _Epictetus._--_Diss._, iv, 6, 7. [178] P. 131, l. 32. _A body full of thinking members._--See I Cor. xii. [179] P. 133, l. 5. _Book of Wisdom._--ii, 6. [180] P. 134, l. 28. _Qui adhaeret_, etc.--1 Cor. vi, 17. [181] P. 134, l. 36. _Two laws._--Matthew xxii, 35-40; Mark xii, 28-31. [182] P. 135, l. 6. _The kingdom of God is within us._--Luke xvii, 29. [183] P. 137, l. 1. _Et non_, etc.--Ps. cxliii, 2. [184] P. 137, l. 3. _The goodness of God leadeth to repentance._--Romans ii, 4. [185] P. 137, l. 5. _Let us do penance_, etc.--See Jonah iii, 8, 9. [186] P. 137, l. 27. _I came to send war._--Matthew x, 34. [187] P. 137, l. 28. _I came to bring fire and the sword._--Luke xii, 49. [188] P. 138, l. 2. _Pharisee and the Publican._--Parable in Luke xviii, 9-14. [189] P. 138, l. 13. _Abraham._--Genesis xiv, 22-24. [190] P. 138, l. 17. _Sub te erit appetitus tuus._--Genesis iv, 7. [191] P. 140, l. 1. _It is_, etc.--A discussion on the Eucharist. [192] P. 140, l. 34. _Non sum dignus._--Luke vii, 6. [193] P. 140, l. 35. _Qui manducat indignus._--I Cor. xi, 29. [194] P. 140, l. 36. _Dignus est accipere._--Apoc. iv, II. [195] P. 141. In the French edition on which this translation is based there was inserted the following fragment after No. 513: "Work out your own salvation with fear." Proofs of prayer. _Petenti dabitur._ Therefore it is in our power to ask. On the other hand, there is God. So it is not in our power, since the obtaining of (the grace) to pray to Him is not in our power. For since salvation is not in us, and the obtaining of such grace is from Him, prayer is not in our power. The righteous man should then hope no more in God, for he ought not to hope, but to strive to obtain what he wants. Let us conclude then that, since man is now unrighteous since the first sin, and God is unwilling that he should thereby not be estranged from Him, it is only by a first effect that he is not estranged. Therefore, those who depart from God have not this first effect without which they are not estranged from God, and those who do not depart from God have this first effect. Therefore, those whom we have seen possessed for some time of grace by this first effect, cease to pray, for want of this first effect. Then God abandons the first in this sense. It is doubtful, however that this fragment should be included in the _Pensees_, and it has seemed best to separate it from the text. It has only once before appeared--in the edition of Michaut (1896). The first half of it has been freely translated in order to give an interpretation in accordance with a suggestion from M. Emile Boutroux, the eminent authority on Pascal. The meaning seems to be this. In one sense it is in our power to ask from God, who promises to give us what we ask. But, in another sense, it is not in our power to ask; for it is not in our power to obtain the grace which is necessary in asking. We know that salvation is not in our power. Therefore some condition of salvation is not in our power. Now the conditions of salvation are two: (1) The asking for it, and (2) the obtaining it. But God promises to give us what we ask. Hence the obtaining is in our power. Therefore the condition which is not in our power must be the first, namely, the asking. Prayer presupposes a grace which it is not within our power to obtain. After giving the utmost consideration to the second half of this obscure fragment, and seeking assistance from some eminent scholars, the translator has been compelled to give a strictly literal translation of it, without attempting to make sense. [196] P. 141, l. 14. _Lord, when saw we_, etc.--Matthew xxv, 37. [197] P. 143, l. 19. _Qui justus est, justificetur adhuc._--Apoc. xxii, II. [198] P. 144, l. 2. _Corneille._--See his _Horace_, II, iii. [199] P. 144, l. 15. _Corrumpunt mores_, etc.--I Cor. xv, 33. [200] P. 145. l. 25. _Quod curiositate_, etc.--St. Augustine, _Sermon CXLI_. [201] P. 146, l. 34. _Quia ... facere._--I Cor. i, 21. [202] P. 148, l. 7. _Turbare semetipsum._--John xi, 33. The text is _turbavit seipsum_. [203] P. 148, l. 25. _My soul is sorrowful even unto death._--Mark xiv, 34. [204] P. 149, l. 3. _Eamus. Processit._--John xviii, 4. But _eamus_ does not occur. See, however, Matthew xxvi, 46. [205] P. 150, l. 36. _Eritis sicut_, etc.--Genesis iv, 5. [206] P. 151, l. 2. _Noli me tangere._--John xx, 17. [207] P. 156, l. 14. _Vere discipuli_, etc.--Allusions to John viii, 31, i, 47; viii, 36; vi, 32. [208] P. 158, l. 41. _Signa legem in electis meis._--Is. viii, 16. The text of the Vulgate is _in discipulis meis_. [209] P. 159, l. 2. _Hosea._--xiv, 9. [210] P. 159, l. 13. _Saint John._--xii, 39. [211] P. 160, l. 17. _Tamar._--Genesis xxxviii, 24-30. [212] P. 160, l. 17. _Ruth._--Ruth iv, 17-22. [213] P. 163, l. 13. _History of China._--A History of China in Latin had been published in 1658. [214] P. 164, l. I. _The five suns_, etc.--Montaigne, _Essais_, iii, 6. [215] P. 164, l. 9. _Jesus Christ._--John v, 31. [216] P. 164, l. 17. _The Koran says_, etc.--There is no mention of Saint Matthew in the Koran; but it speaks of the Apostles generally. [217] P. 165, l. 35. _Moses._--Deut. xxxi, 11. [218] P. 166, l. 23. _Carnal Christians._--Jesuits and Molinists. [219] P. 170, l. 14. _Whom he welcomed from afar._--John viii, 56. [220] P. 170, l. 19. _Salutare_, etc.--Genesis xdix, 18. [221] P. 173, l. 33. _The Twelve Tables at Athens._--There were no such tables. About 450 B.C. a commission is said to have been appointed in Rome to visit Greece and collect information to frame a code of law. This is now doubted, if not entirely discredited. [222] P. 173, l. 35. _Josephus.--Reply to Apion_, ii, 16. Josephus, the Jewish historian, gained the favour of Titus, and accompanied him to the siege of Jerusalem. He defended the Jews against a contemporary grammarian, named Apion, who had written a violent satire on the Jews. [223] P. 174, l. 27. _Against Apion._--ii, 39. See preceding note. [224] P. 174, l. 28. _Philo._--A Jewish philosopher, who lived in the first century of the Christian era. He was one of the founders of the Alexandrian school of thought. He sought to reconcile Jewish tradition with Greek thought. [225] P. 175, l. 20. _Prefers the younger._--See No. 710. [226] P. 176, l. 32. _The books of the Sibyls and Trismegistus._--The Sibyls were the old Roman prophetesses. Their predictions were preserved in three books at Rome, which Tarquinius Superbus had bought from the Sibyl of Erythrae. Trismegistus was the Greek name of the Egyptian god Thoth, who was regarded as the originator of Egyptian culture, the god of religion, of writing, and of the arts and sciences. Under his name there existed forty-two sacred books, kept by the Egyptian priests. [227] P. 177, l. 3. _Quis mihi_, etc.--Numbers xi, 29. _Quis tribuat ut omnis populus prophetet_? [228] P. 177, l. 25. _Maccabees._--2 Macc. xi, 2. [229] P. 177, l. 7. _This book_, etc.--Is. xxx, 8. [230] P. 178, l. 9. _Tertullian._--A Christian writer in the second century after Christ. The quotation is from his _De Cultu Femin._, ii, 3. [231] P. 178, l. 16. (+Theos+), etc.--Eusebius, _Hist._, lib. v, c. 8. [232] P. 178, l. 22. _And he took that from Saint Irenaeus._--_Hist._, lib. x, c 25. [233] P. 179, l. 5. _The story in Esdras._--2 Esdras xiv. God appears to Esdras in a bush, and orders him to assemble the people and deliver the message. Esdras replies that the law is burnt. Then God commands him to take five scribes to whom for forty days He dictates the ancient law. This story conflicted with many passages in the prophets, and was therefore rejected from the Canon at the Council of Trent. [234] P. 181, l. 14. _The Kabbala._--The fantastic secret doctrine of interpretation of Scripture, held by a number of Jewish rabbis. [235] P. 181, l. 26. _Ut sciatis_, etc.--Mark ii, 10, 11. [236] P. 183, l. 29. _This generation_, etc.--Matthew xxiv, 34. [237] P. 184, l. 11. _Difference between dinner and supper._--Luke xiv, 12. [238] P. 184, l. 28. _The six ages_, etc.--M. Havet has traced this to a chapter in St. Augustine, _De Genesi contra Manichaeos_, i, 23. [239] P. 184, l. 31. _Forma futuri._--Romans v, 14. [240] P. 186, l. 13. _The Messiah_, etc.--John xii, 34. [241] P. 186, l. 30. _If the light_, etc.--Matthew vi, 23. [242] P. 187, l. 1. _Somnum suum._--Ps. lxxvi, 5. [243] P. 187, l. 1. _Figura hujus mundi._--1 Cor. vii, 31. [244] P. 187, l. 2. _Comedes panem tuum._--Deut. viii, 9. _Panem nostrum,_ Luke xi, 3. [245] P. 187, l. 3. _Inimici Dei terram lingent._--Ps. lxxii, 9. [246] P. 187, l. 8. _Cum amaritudinibus._--Exodus xii, 8. The Vulgate has _cum lacticibus agrestibus_. [247] P. 187, l. 9. _Singularis sum ego donec transeam._--Ps. cxli, 10. [248] P. 188, l. 19. _Saint Paul._--Galatians iv, 24; I Cor. iii, 16, 17; Hebrews ix, 24; Romans ii, 28, 29. [249] P. 188, l. 25. _That Moses_, etc.--John vi, 32. [250] P. 189, l. 3. _For one thing alone is needful._--Luke x, 42. [251] P. 189, l. 9. _The breasts of the Spouse._--Song of Solomon iv, 5. [252] P. 189, l. 15. _And the Christians_, etc.--Romans vi, 20; viii, 14, 15. [253] P. 189, l. 17. _When Saint Peter_, etc.--Acts xv. See Genesis xvii, 10; Leviticus xii, 3. [254] P. 189, l. 27. _Fac secundum_, etc.--Exodus xxv, 40. [255] P. 190, l. 1. _Saint Paul._--1 Tim. iv, 3; 1 Cor. vii. [256] P. 190, l. 7. _The Jews_, etc.--Hebrews viii, 5. [257] P. 192, l. 15. _That He should destroy death through death._--Hebrews ii, 14. [258] P. 192, l. 30. _Veri adoratores._--John iv, 23. [259] P. 192, l. 30. _Ecce agnus_, etc.--John i, 29. [260] P. 193, l. 15. _Ye shall be free indeed._--John viii, 36. [261] P. 193, l. 17. _I am the true bread from heaven._--Ibid., vi, 32. [262] P. 194, l. 27. _Agnus occisus_, etc.--Apoc. xiii, 8. [263] P. 194, l. 34. _Sede a dextris meis._--Ps. cx, 1. [264] P. 195, l. 12. _A jealous God._--Exodus xx, 5. [265] P. 195, l. 14. _Quia confortavit seras._--Ps. cxlvii, 13. [266] P. 195, l. 17. _The closed mem._--The allusions here are to certain peculiarities in Jewish writing. There are some letters written in two ways, closed or open, as the _mem_. [267] P. 199, l. 1. _Great Pan is dead._--Plutarch, _De Defect. Orac._, xvii. [268] P. 199, l. 2. _Susceperunt verbum_, etc.--Acts xvii, 11. [269] P. 199, l. 20. _The ruler taken from the thigh._--Genesis xlix, 10. [270] P. 208, l. 6. _Make their heart fat._--Is. vi, 10; John xii, 40. [271] P. 209, l. 1. _Non habemus regem nisi Caesarem._--John xix, 15. [272] P. 218, l. 17. _In Horeb_, etc.--Deut. xviii, 16-19. [273] P. 220, l. 34. _Then they shall teach_, etc.--Jeremiah xxxi, 34. [274] P. 221, l. 1. _Your sons shall prophesy._--Joel ii, 28. [275] P. 221, l. 20. _Populum_, etc.--Is. lxv, 2; Romans x, 21. [276] P. 222, l. 25. _Eris palpans in meridie._--Deut. xxviii, 29. [277] P. 222, l. 26. _Dabitur liber_, etc.--Is. xxix, 12. The quotation is inaccurate. [278] P. 223, l. 24. _Quis mihi_, etc.--Job xix, 23-25. [279] P. 224, l. 1. _Pray_, etc.--The fragments here are Pascal's notes on Luke. See chaps. xxii and xxiii. [280] P. 225, l. 20. _Excaeca._--Is. vi, 10. [281] P, 226, l. 9. _Lazarus dormit_, etc.--John xi, 11, 14. [282] P. 226, l. 10. _The apparent discrepancy of the Gospels._--To reconcile the apparent discrepancies in the Gospels, Pascal wrote a short life of Christ. [283] P. 227, l. 13. _Gladium tuum, potentissime._--Ps. xlv, 3. [284] P. 228, l. 25. _Ingrediens mundum._--Hebrews x, 5. [285] P. 228, l. 26. _Stone upon stone._--Mark xiii, 2. [286] P. 229, l. 20. _Jesus Christ at last_, etc.--See Mark xii. [287] P. 230, l. 1. _Effundam spiritum meum._--Joel ii, 28. [288] P. 230, l. 6. _Omnes gentes ... eum._--Ps. xxii, 27. [289] P. 230, l. 7. _Parum est ut_, etc.--Is. xlix, 6. [290] P. 230, l. 7. _Postula a me._--Ps. ii, 8. [291] P. 230, l. 8. _Adorabunt ... reges._--Ps. lxxii, 11. [292] P. 230, l. 8. _Testes iniqui._--Ps. xxv, 11. [293] P. 230, l. 8. _Dabit maxillam percutienti._--Lamentations iii, 30. [294] P. 230, l. 9. _Dederunt fel in escam._--Ps. lxix, 21. [295] P. 230, l. 11. _I will bless them that bless thee._--Genesis xii, 3. [296] P. 230, l. 12. _All nations blessed in his seed._--Ibid., xxii, 18. [297] P. 230, l. 13. _Lumen ad revelationem gentium._--Luke ii, 32. [298] P. 230, l. 14. _Non fecit taliter_, etc.--Ps. cxlvii, 20. [299] P. 230, l. 20. _Bibite ex hoc omnes._--Matthew xxvi, 27. [300] P. 230, l. 22. _In quo omnes peccaverunt._--Romans v, 12. [301] P. 230, l. 26. _Ne timeas pusillus grex._--Luke xii, 32. [302] P. 230, l. 29. _Qui me_, etc.--Matthew x, 40. [303] P. 230, l. 32. _Saint John._--Luke i, 17. [304] P. 230, l. 33. _Jesus Christ._--Ibid., xii, 51. [305] P. 231, l. 5. _Omnis Judaea_, etc.--Mark i, 5. [306] P. 231, l. 7. _From these stones_, etc.--Matthew iii, 9. [307] P. 231, l. 9. _Ne convertantur_, etc.--Mark iv, 12. [308] P. 231, l. 11. _Amice, ad quid venisti?_--Matthew xxvi, 50. [309] P. 231, l. 31. _What is a man_, etc.--Luke ix, 25. [310] P. 231, l. 32. _Whosoever will_, etc.--Ibid., 24. [311] P. 232, l. 1. _I am not come_, etc.--Matthew v, 17. [312] P. 232, l. 2. _Lambs took not_, etc.--See John i, 29. [313] P. 232, l. 4. _Moses._--Ibid., vi, 32; viii, 36. [314] P. 232, l. 15. _Quare_, etc.--Ps. ii, 1, 2. [315] P. 233, l. 8. _I have reserved me seven thousand._--1 Kings xix, 18. [316] P. 234, l. 27. _Archimedes._--The founder of statics and hydrostatics. He was born at Syracuse in 287 B.C., and was killed in 212 B.C. He was not a prince, though a relative of a king. M. Havet points out that Cicero talks of him as an obscure man _(Tusc,_ v, 23). [317] P. 235, l. 33. _In sanctificationem et in scandalum._--Is. viii, 14. [318] P. 238, l. 11. _Jesus Christ._--Mark ix, 39. [319] P. 239, l. 7. _Rejoice not_, etc.--Luke x, 20. [320] P. 239, l. 12. _Scimus_, etc.--John iii, 2. [321] P. 239, l. 25. _Nisi fecissem ... haberent._--Ibid., xv, 24. [322] P. 239, l. 32. _The second miracle._--Ibid., iv, 54. [323] P. 240, l. 6. _Montaigne._--_Essais_, ii, 26, and iii, 11. [324] P. 242, l. 9. _Vatable._--Professor of Hebrew at the College Royal, founded by Francis I. An edition of the Bible with notes under his name, which were not his, was published in 1539. [325] P. 242, l. 19. _Omne regnum divisum._--Matthew xii, 25; Luke xi, 17. [326] P. 242, l. 23. _Si in digito ... vos._--Luke xi, 20. [327] P. 243, l. 12. _Q. 113, A. 10, Ad. 2._--Thomas Aquinas's _Summa_, Pt. I, Question 113, Article 10, Reply to the Second Objection. [328] P. 243, l. 18. _Judaei signa petunt_, etc.--I Cor. i, 22. [329] P. 243, l. 23. _Sed vos_, etc.--John x, 26. [330] P. 246, l. 15. _Tu quid dicis_? etc.--John ix, 17, 33. [331] P. 247, l. 14. _Though ye believe not_, etc.--John x, 38. [332] P. 247, l. 25. _Nemo facit_, etc.--Mark ix, 39. [333] P. 247, l. 27. _A sacred relic._--This is a reference to the miracle of the Holy Thorn. Marguerite Perier, Pascal's niece, was cured of a fistula lachrymalis on 24 March, 1656, after her eye was touched with this sacred relic, supposed to be a thorn from the crown of Christ. This miracle made a great impression upon Pascal. [334] P. 248, l. 23. _These nuns._--Of Port-Royal, as to which, see note on page 110, line 16, above. They were accused of Calvinism. [335] P. 248, l. 28. _Vide si_, etc.--Ps. cxxxix, 24. [336] P. 249, l. 1. _Si tu_, etc.--Luke xxii, 67. [337] P. 249, l. 2. _Opera quae_, etc.--John v, 36; x, 26-27. [338] P. 249, l. 7. _Nemo potest_, etc.--John iii, 2. [339] P. 249, l. 11. _Generatio prava_, etc.--Matthew xii, 39. [340] P. 249, l. 14. _Et non poterat facere._--Mark vi, 5. [341] P. 249, l. 16. _Nisi videritis, non creditis._--John iv, 8, 48. [342] P. 249, l. 23. _Tentat enim_, etc.--Deut. xiii, 3. [343] P. 249, l. 25. _Ecce praedixi vobis: vos ergo videte._--Matthew xxiv, 25, 26. [344] P. 250, l. 7. _We have Moses_, etc.--John ix, 29. [345] P. 250, l. 30. _Quid debui._--Is. v, 3, 4. The Vulgate is _Quis est quod debui ultra facere vineae meae, et non feci ei_. [346] P. 251, l. 12. _Bar-jesus blinded._--Acts xiii, 6-11. [347] P. 251, l. 14. _The Jewish exorcists._--Ibid., xix, 13-16. [348] P. 251, l. 18. _Si angelus._--Galatians i, 8. [349] P. 252, l. 10. _An angel from heaven._--See previous note. [350] P. 252, l. 14. _Father Lingende._--Claude de Lingendes, an eloquent Jesuit preacher, who died in 1660. [351] P. 252, l. 33. _Ubi est Deus tuus?_--Ps. xiii, 3. [352] P. 252, l. 34. _Exortum est_, etc.--Ps. cxii, 4. [353] P. 253, l. 6. _Saint Xavier._--Saint Francois Xavier, the friend of Ignatius Loyola, became a Jesuit. [354] P. 253, l. 9. _Vae qui_, etc.--Is. x, I. [355] P. 253, l. 24. _The five propositions._--See Preface. [356] P. 253, l. 36. _To seduce_, etc.--Mark xiii, 22. [357] P. 254, l. 6. _Si non fecissem._--John xv, 24. [358] P. 255, l. 11. _Believe in the Church._--Matthew xviii, 17-20. [359] P. 257, l. 14. _They._--The Jansenists, who believed in the system of evangelical doctrine deduced from Augustine by Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638), the Bishop of Ypres. They held that interior grace is irresistible, and that Christ died for all, in reaction against the ordinary Catholic dogma of the freedom of the will, and merely sufficient grace. [360] P. 258, l. 4. _A time to laugh_, etc.--Eccles. iii, 4. [361] P. 258, l. 4. _Responde. Ne respondeas._--Prov. xxvi, 4, 5. [362] P. 260, l. 3. _Saint Athanasius._--Patriarch of Alexandria, accused of rape, of murder, and of sacrilege. He was condemned by the Councils of Tyre, Aries, and Milan. Pope Liberius is said to have finally ratified the condemnation in A.D. 357. Athanasius here stands for Jansenius, Saint Thersea for Mother Angelique, and Liberius for Clement IX. [363] P. 261, l. 17. _Vos autem non sic._--Luke xxii, 26. [364] P. 261, l. 23. _Duo aut tres in unum._--John x, 30; First Epistle of St. John, V, 8. [365] P. 262, l. 18. _The Fronde._--The party which rose against Mazarin and the Court during the minority of Louis XIV. They led to civil war. [366] P. 262, l. 25. _Pasce oves meas._--John xxi, 17. [367] P. 263, l. 14. _Jeroboam._--I Kings xii, 31. [368] P. 265, l. 21. _The servant_, etc.--John xv, 15. [369] P. 266, l. 4. _He that is not_, etc.--Matthew xii, 30. [370] P. 266, l. 5. _He that is not_, etc.--Mark ix, 40. [371] P. 266, l. 11. _Humilibus dot gratiam._--James iv, 6. [372] P. 266, l. 12. _Sui eum non_, etc.--John i, 11, 12. [373] P. 266, l. 33. _We will be as the other nations._--I Sam. viii, 20. [374] P. 268, l. 19. _Vince in bono malum._--Romans xii, 21. [375] P. 268, l. 26. _Montalte._--See note on page 6, line 30, above. [376] P. 269, l. 11. _Probability._--The doctrine in casuistry that of two probable views, both reasonable, one may follow his own inclinations, as a doubtful law cannot impose a certain obligation. It was held by the Jesuits, the famous religious order founded in 1534 by Ignatius Loyola. This section of the _Pensees_ is directed chiefly against them. [377] P. 269, l. 22. _Coacervabunt sibi magistros._--2 Tim. iv, 3. [378] P. 270, l. 3. _These._--The writers of Port-Royal. [379] P. 270, l. 15. _The Society._--The Society of Jesus. [380] P. 271, l. 15. _Digna necessitas._--Book of Wisdom xix, 4. INDEX _The figures refer to the numbers of the Pensees, and not to the pages._ ABRAHAM, took nothing for himself, 502; from stones can come children unto, 777; and Gideon, 821 Absolutions, without signs of regret, 903, 904 Act, the last, is tragic, 210 Adam, compared with Christ, 551; his glorious state, 559; _forma futuri_, 655 Advent, the time of the first, foretold, 756 Age, influences judgment, 381; the six ages, 654 Alexander, the example of his chastity, 103 Amusements, dangerous to the Christian life, 11 Animals, intelligence and instinct of, 340, 342 Antichrist, miracles of, foretold by Christ, 825; will speak openly against God, 842; miracles of, cannot lead into error, 845 Apocalyptics, extravagances of the, 650 Apostles, hypothesis that they were deceivers, 571; foresaw heresies, 578; supposition that they were either deceived or deceivers, 801 Aquinas, Thomas, 61, 338 Arcesilaus, the sceptic, became a dogmatist, 375 Archimedes, greatness of, 792 Arians, where they go wrong, 861 Aristotle, and Plato, 331 Arius, miracles in his time, 831 Athanasius, St., 867 Atheism, shows a certain strength of mind, 225 Atheists, who seek, to be pitied, 190; ought to say what is perfectly evident, 221; objections of, against the Resurrection and the Virgin Birth, 222, 223; objection of, 228 Augustine, St., saw that we work for an uncertainty, 234; on the submission of reason, 270; on miracles, 811; his authority, 868 Augustus, his saying about Herod's son, 179 Authority, in belief, 260 Authors, vanity of certain, 43 Automatism, human, 252 Babylon, rivers of, 459 Beauty, a certain standard of, 32; poetical, 33 Belief, three sources of, 245; rule of, 260; of simple people, 284; without reading the Testaments, 286; the Cross creates, 587; reasons why there is no, in the miracles, 825 Bias, leads to error, 98 Birth, noble, an advantage, 322; persons of high, honoured and despised, 337 Blame, and praise, 501 Blood, example of the circulation of, 96 Body, nourishment of the, 356; the, and its members, 475, 476; infinite distance between mind and, 792 Brutes, no mutual admiration among the, 401 Caesar, compared with Alexander and Augustus, 132 Calling, chance decides the choice of a, 97 Calvinism, error of, 776 Canonical, the heretical books prove the, 568 Carthusian monk, difference between a soldier and a, 538 Casuists, true believers have no pretext for following their laxity, 888; submit the decision to a corrupted reason, 906; cannot give assurance to a conscience in error, 908; allow lust to act, 913 Causes, seen by the intellect and not by the senses, 234 Catholic, the, doctrine, of the Holy Sacrament, 861 Ceremonies, ordained in the Old Testament, are types, 679 Certain, nothing is, 234 Chance, according to the doctrine of chance, one should believe in God, 233; and work for an uncertainty, 234; and seek the truth, 236; gives rise to thoughts, 370 Chancellor, the position of the, uneral, 307 Character, the Christian, the human, and the inhuman, 532 Charity, nothing so like it as covetousness, 662; not a figurative precept, 664; the sole aim of the Scripture, 669 Charron, the divisions of, 62 Children, frightened at the face they have blackened, 88; of Port-Royal, 151; illustration of usurpation from, 295 China, History of, 592, 593 Christianity, alone cures pride and sloth, 435; is strange, 536; consists in two points, 555; evidence for, 563; is wise and foolish, 587 Christians, few true, 256; without the knowledge of the prophecies and evidences, 287; comply with folly, 338; humility of, 537; their hope, 539; their happiness, 540; the God of, 543 Church, history of the, 857; the, in persecution, like a ship in a storm, 858; when in a good state, 860; has always been attacked by opposite errors, 861; the, and tradition, 866; absolution and the, 869; the Pope and the, 870; the, and infallibility, 875; true justice in the, 877; the work of the, 880; the discipline of the, 884; the anathemas of the, 895 Cicero, false beauties in, 31 Cipher, a, has a double meaning, 676, 677; key of, 680; the, given by St. Paul, 682 Circumcision, only a sign, 609; the apostles and, 671 Clearness, sufficient, for the elect, 577; and obscurity, 856 Cleobuline, the passion of, 13 Cleopatra, the nose of, 162; and love, 163 Compliments, 57 Conditions, the easiest, to live in, according to the world and to God, 905 Condolences, formal, 56 Confession, 100; different effects of, 529 Contradiction, 157; a bad sign of truth, 384 Conversion, the, 470; of the heathen, 768 Copernicus, 218 Cords, the, which bind the respect of men to each other, 304 Correct, how to, with advantage, 9 Cripple, why a, does not offend us, and a fool does, 80 Cromwell, death of, 176 Custom, is our nature, 89; our natural principles, principles of, 92; a second nature, 93; the source of our strongest beliefs, 252 Cyrus, prediction of, 712 Damned, the, condemned by their own reason, 562 Daniel, 721; the seventy weeks of, 722 David, a saying of, 689; the eternal reign of the race of, 716, 717 Death, easier to bear without thinking of it, 166; men do not think of, 168; fear of, 215, 216; examples of the noble deaths of the Lacedaemonians, 481 Deference, meaning of, 317 Deeds, noble, best when hidden, 159 Deism, as far removed from Christianity as atheism, 555 Democritus, saying of, 72 Demonstrations, not certain that there are true, 387 Descartes, 76, 77, 78, 79 Devil, the, and miracle, 803; the, and doctrine, 819 Disciples, and true disciples, 518 Discourses, on humility, 377 Diseases, a source of error, 82 Disproportion of man, 72 Diversion, reason why men seek, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 168, 170 Docility, 254 Doctor, the, 12 Doctrine, and miracles, 802, 842 Dogmatism, and scepticism, 434 Dream, life like a, 386 Duty, and the passions, 104 Ecclesiastes, 389 Eclipses, why said to foretoken misfortune, 173 Ego, what is the, 323; consists in thought, 469 Egyptians, conversion of the, 724 Elect, the, ignorant of their virtues, 514; all things work together for good to the, 574 Eloquence, 15, 16, 25, 26 Emilius, Paulus, 409, 410 Enemies, meaning of, in the prophecies, 570, 691 Epictetus, 80, 466, 467 Error, a common, when advantageous, 18 Esdras, the story in, 631, 632, 633 Eternity, existence of, 195 Ethics, consoles us, 67; a special science, 911 Eucharist, the, 224, 512, 788 Evangelists, the, painted a perfectly heroic soul in Jesus Christ, 799 Evil, infinite forms of, 408 Examples, in demonstration, 40 Exception, and the rule, 832, 903 Excuses, on, 58 External, the, must be joined to the internal, 250 Ezekiel, spoke evil of Israel, 885 Faith, different from proof, 248; and miracle, 263; and the senses, 264; what is, 278; without, man cannot know the true good or justice, 425; consists in Jesus Christ, 522 Fancy, effects of, 86; confused with feeling, 274 Faults, we owe a great debt to those who point out, 534 Fear, good and bad, 262 Feeling, and reasoning, 3, 274; harmed in the same way as the understanding, 6 Flies, the power of, 366, 367 Friend, importance of a true, 155 Fundamentals, the two, 804 Galilee, the word, 743 Gentiles, conversion of the, 712; calling of the, 713 Gentleman, the universal quality, 35; man never taught to be a, 68 Glory, 151, 401; the greatest baseness of man is the pursuit of, 404 God, the conduct of, 185; is infinite, 231, 233; infinitely incomprehensible, 233; we should wager that there is a, 233; a _Deus absconditus,_ 194, 242; knowledge of, is not the love of Him, 280; two kinds of persons know, 288; has created all for Himself, 314; the wisdom of, 430; must reign over all, 460; we must love Him only, 479; not true that all reveals, 556; has willed to blind some and to enlighten others, 565, 575; foresaw heresies, 578; has willed to hide Himself, 584; formed for Himself the Jewish people, 643; the word does not differ from the intention in, 653; the greatness of His compassion, 847; has not wanted to absolve without the Church, 869 Godliness, why difficult, 498 Good, the inquiry into the sovereign, 73, 462 Gospel, the style of the, admirable, 797 Grace, unites us to God, 430, 507; necessary to turn a man into a saint, 508; the law and, 519, 521; nature and, 520; morality and, 522; man's capacity for, 523 Great, the, and the humble have the same misfortunes, 180 Greatness, the, of man, 397, 398, 400, 409; constituted by thought, 346; even in his lust, 402, 403; and wretchedness of man, 416, 417, 418, 423, 430, 443 Haggai, 725 Happiness, all men seek, 425; is in God, 465 Happy, in order to be, man does not think of death, 169 Hate, all men naturally, one another, 451 Heart, the, has its reasons, 277; experiences God, 278; we know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the, 282; has its own order, 283 Heresy, 774; source of all, 861 Heretics, and the three marks of religion, 843, 844; and the Jesuits, 890 Herod, 178, 179 Hosts, the three, 177 Image, an, of the condition of men, 199 Imagination, that deceitful part in man, 82; enlarges little objects, 84; magnifies a nothing, 85; often mistaken for the heart, 275; judges, etc., appeal only to the, 307 Inconstancy, in, 112, 113 Infinite, the, of greatness and of littleness, 72; and the finite, 233 Injustice, 214, 191, 293, 326, 878 Instability, 212 Intellect, different kinds of, 2 Isaiah, 712, 725 Jacob, 612, 710 Jansenists, the, are persecuted, 859; are like the heretics, 886 Jeremiah, 713, 818 Jesuits, the, unjust persecutors, 851; hardness of the, 853; and Jansenists, 864; impose upon the Pope, 881; effects of their sins, 918; do not keep their word, 923 Jesus Christ employs the rule of love, 283; is a God whom we approach without pride, 527; His teaching, 544; without, man must be in misery, 545; God known only through, 546; we know ourselves only through, 547; useless to know God without, 548; the sepulchre of, 551; the mystery of, 552; and His wounds, 553; genealogy of, 577; came at the time foretold, 669; necessary for Him to suffer, 678; the Messiah, 719; prophecies about, 730, 733, 734; foretold, and was foretold, 738; how regarded by the Old and New Testaments, 239; what the prophets say of, 750; His office, 765; typified by Joseph, 767; what He came to say, 769, 782; came to blind, etc., 770; never condemned without hearing, 779; Redeemer of all, 780; would not have the testimony of devils, 783; an obscurity, 785, 788; would not be slain without the forms of justice, 789; no man had more renown than, 791; absurd to take offence at the lowliness of, 792; came _in sanctificationem et in scandalum_, 794; said great things simply, 796; verified that He was the Messiah, 807; and miracles, 828 Jews, their religion must be differently regarded in the Bible and in their tradition, 600; and is wholly divine, 602; the carnal, 606, 607, 661, 746; true, and true Christians have the same religion, 609; their advantages, 619; their antiquity, 627; their sincerity, 629, 630; their long and miserable existence, 639; the, expressly made to witness to the Messiah, 640; earthly thoughts of the, 669; were the slaves of sin, 670; their zeal for the law, 700, 701; the devil troubled their zeal, 703; their captivity, 712; reprobation of the, 712; accustomed to great miracles, 745; the, but not all, reject Christ, 759; the, in slaying Him, have proved Him to be the Messiah, 760; their dilemma, 761 Job and Solomon, 174 John, St., the Baptist, 775 Joseph, 622, 697, 767 Josephus, 628, 786 Joshua, 626 Judgment, the, and the intellect, 4; of another easily prejudiced, 105 Just, the, act by faith, 504 Justice, the, of God, 233; relation of, to law and custom, 294, 325; and might, 298, 299; determined by custom, 309; is what is established, 312 King, the, surrounded by people to amuse him, 139; a, without amusement, is full of wretchedness, 142; why he inspires respect, 308; and tyrant, 310; on what his power is founded, 330 Knowledge, limitations of man's, 72; of ourselves impossible, apart from the mystery of the transmission of sin, 434; of God and of man's wretchedness found in Christ, 526 Koran, the, 596 Lackeys, afford a means of social distinction, 318, 319 Language, 27, 45, 49, 53, 54, 59, 648 Law, the, and nature, 519; the, and grace, 521; the, of the Jews, the oldest and most perfect, 618 Laws, the, are the only universal rules, 299; two, rule the Christian Republic, 484 Liancourt, the frog and the pike of, 341 Life, human, a perpetual illusion, 100; we desire to live an imaginary, 147; short duration of, 205; only, between us and heaven or hell, 213 Love, nature of self-, 100, 455; causes and effects of, 162, 163; nothing so opposed to justice and truth as self-, 492 Lusts, the three, 458, 460, 461 Machine, the, 246, 247; the arithmetical, 340 Macrobius, 178, 179 Magistrates, make a show to strike the imagination, 82 Mahomet, 590; without authority, 594; his own witness, 595; a false prophet, 596; is ridiculous, 597; difference between Christ and, 598, 599; religion of, 600 Man, full of wants, 36; misery of, without God, 60, 389; disproportion of, 72; a subject of error, 83; naturally credulous, 125; description of, 116; condition of, 127; disgraceful for, to yield to pleasure, 160; despises religion, 187; lacks heart, 196; his sensibility to trifles, 197; a thinking reed, 347, 348; neither angel, nor brute, 358; necessarily mad, 414; two views of the nature of, 415; does not know his rank, 427; a chimera, 434; the two vices of, 435; pursues wealth, 436; only happy in God, 438; does not act by reason, 439; unworthy of God, 510; is of two kinds, 533; holds an inward talk with himself, 535; without Christ, must be in vice and misery, 545; everything teaches him his condition, 556 Martial, epigrams of, 41 Master and servant, 530, 896 Materialism, on, 72, 75 Members, we are, of the whole, 474, 477, 482, 483 Memory, intuitive, 95; necessary for reason, 369 Merit, men and, 490 Messiah, necessary that there should be preceding prophecies about the, 570; the, according to the carnal Jews and carnal Christians, 606; the, has always been believed in, 615; and expected, 616; prophecies about the, 726, 728, 729; Herod believed to be the, 752 Mind, difference between the mathematical and the intuitive, 1; and body, 72, 792; natural for it to believe, 81; the, easily disturbed, 366 Miracles, and belief, 263; a test of doctrine, 802, 842, 845; definition of, 803; necessary, 805; Christ and 807, 810, 828, 833, 837, 838; Montaigne and, 812, 813; the reason people believe false, 816, 817; the, of the false prophets, 818; false, 822, 823; their use, 824; the foundation of religion, 825, 826, 850; no longer necessary, 831; the miracle of the Holy Thorn, 838, 855; the test in matters of doubt, 840; one mark of religion, 843 Misery, diversion alone consoles us for, and is the greatest, 171; proves man's greatness, 398; we have an instinct which raises us above, 411; induces despair, 525 Miton, 192, 448, 455 Montaigne, 18; criticism of, 62, 63, 64, 65; 220, 234, 325, 812, 813 Moses, 577, 592, 623, 628, 688, 689, 751, 802 Nature has made her truths independent of one another, 21; and theology, 29; is corrupt, 60; has set us in the centre, 70; only a first custom, 93; makes us unhappy in every state, 109; imitates herself, 110; diversifies, 120; always begins the same things again, 121; our, consists in motion, 129; and God, 229, 242, 243, 244; acts by progress, 355; the least movement affects all, 505; perfections and imperfections of, 579; an image of grace, 674 Nebuchadnezzar, 721 Novelty, power of the charms of, 82 Obscurity, the, of religion shows its truth, 564; without, man would not be sensible of corruption, 585 Opinion, the queen of the world, 311 Outward, the Church judges only by the, 904 Painting, vanity of, 134 Passion, makes us forget duty, 104; we are sure of pleasing a man, if we know his ruling, 106; how to prevent the harmful effect of, 203 Patriarchs, longevity of, 625 Paul, St., 283, 532, 672, 682, 852 Pelagians, the semi-, 776 Penitence, 660, 922 People, ordinary, have the power of not thinking of that about which they do not want to think, 259; sound opinions of the people, 313, 316, 324 Perpetuity, 612, 615, 616 Perseus, 410 Persons, only three kinds of, 257; two kinds of, know God, 288 Peter, St., 671, 743 Philosophers, the, have confused ideas of things, 72; influence of imagination upon, 82; disquiet inquirers, 184; made their ethics independent of the immortality of the soul, 219, 220; have mastered their passions, 349; believe in God without Christ, 463; their motto, 464; have consecrated vices, 503; what they advise, 509; did not prescribe suitable feelings, 524 Piety, different from superstition, 255 Pilate, the false justice of, 790 Plato, 219, 331 Poets, 34, 38, 39 Pope, the, 870, 871, 872, 873, 874, 879, 881 Port-Royal, 151, 838, 919 Prayer, why established, 513 Predictions of particular things, 710; of Cyrus, 712; of events in the fourth monarchy, 723; of the Messiah, 728, 730 Present, we do not rest satisfied with the, 172 Presumption of men, 148 Pride, 152, 153, 406 Probability, the Jesuitical doctrine of, 901, 907, 909, 912, 915, 916, 917, 919, 921 Proofs, of religion, 289, 290; metaphysical, of God, 542 Prophecies, the, entrusted to the Jews, 570; the strongest proof of Christ, 705; necessarily distributed, 706; about Christ, 709, 726, 730, 732, 735; proofs of divinity, 712; in Egypt, 725 Prophets, the, prophesied by symbols, 652; their discourses obscure, 658; their meaning veiled, 677; zeal after the, 702; did not speak to flatter the people, 718; foretold, 738 Propositions, the five, 830, 849 Purgatory, 518 _Provincial Letters_, the, 52, 919 Pyrrhus, advice given to, 139 Rabbinism, chronology of, 634 Reason and the imagination, 82; and the senses, 83; recognises an infinity of things beyond it, 267; submission of, 268, 269, 270, 272; the heart and, 277, 278, 282; and instinct, 344, 395; commands us imperiously, 345; and the passions, 412, 413; corruption of, 440 Reasoning, reduces itself to yielding to feeling, 274 Redemption, the Red Sea an image of the, 642; the completeness of the, 780 Religion, its true nature and the necessity of studying it, 194; sinfulness of indifference to it, 195; whether certain, 234; suited to all kinds of minds, 285; true, 470, 494; test of the falsity of a, 487; two ways of proving its truths, 560; the Christian, has something astonishing in it, 614; the Christian, founded upon a preceding, 618; reasons for preferring the Christian, 736; three marks of, 843; and natural reason, 902 Republic, the Christian, 482, 610 Rivers, moving roads, 17 Roannez, M. de, a saying of, 276 Rule, a, necessary to judge a work, 5 Sabbath, the, only a sign, 609 Sacrifices, of the Jews and Gentiles, 609 Salvation, happiness of those who hope for, 239 Scaramouch, 12 Scepticism, 373, 376, 378, 385, 392, 394; truth of, 432; chief arguments of, 434 Sciences, vanity of the, 67 Scripture, and the number of stars, 266; its order, 283; has provided passages for all conditions of life, 531; literal inspiration of, 567; blindness of, 572; and Mahomet, 597; extravagant opinions founded on, 650; how to understand, 683, 686; against those who misuse passages of, 898 Self, necessary to know, 66; the little knowledge we have of, 175 Sensations, and molecules, 368 Senses, perceptions of the, always true, 9; perceive no extreme, 72; mislead the reason, 83 Silence, eternal, of infinite space, 206; the greatest persecution, 919 Sin, original, 445, 446, 447 Sneezing, absorbs all the functions of the soul, 160 Soul, immortality of the, 194, 219, 220; immaterial, 349 _Spongia solis_, 91 Stoics, the, 350, 360, 465 Struggle, the, alone pleases us, 135 Style, charm of a natural, 29 Swiss, the, 305 Symmetry, 28 Synagogue, the, a type, 645, 851 Talent, chief, 118 Temple, reprobation of the, 712 Testaments, proof of the two, at once, 641; proof that the Old is figurative, 658; the Old and the New, 665 Theology, a science, 115 Theresa, St., 499, 867, 916 Thought, one, alone occupies us, 145; constitutes man's greatness, 346; and dignity, 365; sometimes escapes us, 370, 372 Time, effects of, 122, 123 Truth, nothing shows man the, 83; different degrees in man's aversion to, 100; the pretext that it is disputed, 261; known by the heart, 282; we desire, 437; here is not the country of, 842; obscure in these times, 863 Types, 570, 642, 643, 644, 645, 656, 657, 658, 669, 674, 678, 686; the law typical, 646, 684; some, clear and demonstrative, 649; particular, 651, 652, 653; are like portraits, 676, 677; the sacrifices are, 679, 684 Tyranny, 332 Understanding, different kinds of, 2 Universe, the relation of man to the, 72; his superiority to it, 347 Vanity, is anchored in man's heart, 150; effects of, 151, 153; curiosity only, 152; little known, 161; love and, 162, 163; only youths do not see the world's, 164 Variety, 114, 115 Vices, some, only lay hold on us through others, 102 Virtues, division of, 20; measure of, 352; excess of, 353, 357; only the balancing of opposed vices, 359; the true, 485 Weariness, in leaving favourite pursuits, 128; nothing so insufferable to man as, 131 Will, natural for the, to love, 81; one of the chief factors in belief, 99; self-, will never be satisfied, 472; is depraved, 477; God prefers to incline the, rather than the intellect, 580 Words, and meanings, 23, 50; repeated in a discourse, 48; superfluous, 49, 59 Works, necessity to do good, 497; external, 499 World, the, a good judge of things, 327; all the, under a delusion, 335; all the, not astonished at its own weakness, 314; all good maxims are in the, 380; the, exists for the exercise of mercy and judgment, 583 Transcribers' note Text in greek transliterated and enclosed in '+' signs in the following places: Pensees 70, 631 Footnote 231 Numbered anchors changed to letter anchors for the four footnotes in the