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[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, 36. See also iii, 1.
[133] P. 98, l. 17. Plerumque gratæ principibus vices.—Horace, Odes, III, xxix, 13, cited by Montaigne, Essais, i, 42. Horace has divitibus instead of principibus.[Pg 279]
[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, Suasoriæ, 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.
