[55] P. 28, l. 15. Quasi quidquam, etc.—­Plin., ii, 7.  Montaigne,
     ibid.

[56] P. 28, l. 29. Quod crebro, etc.—­Cicero, De Divin., ii, 49.

[57] P. 29, l. 1. Spongia solis.—­The spots on the sun.  Pascal sees in
     them the beginning of the darkening of the sun, and thinks that
     there will therefore come a day when there will be no sun.

[58] P. 29, l. 15. Custom is a second nature, etc.—­Montaigne,
     Essais, i, 22.

[59] P. 29, l. 19. Omne animal.—­See Genesis vii, 14.

[60] P. 30, l. 22. Hence savages, etc.—­Montaigne, Essais, i, 22.

[61] P. 32, l. 3. A great part of Europe, etc.—­An allusion to the
     Reformation.

[62] P. 33, l. 13. Alexander’s chastity.—­Pascal apparently has in
     mind Alexander’s treatment of Darius’s wife and daughters after the
     battle of Issus.

[63] P. 34, l. 17. Lustravit lampade terras.—­Part of Cicero’s
     translation of two lines from Homer, Odyssey, xviii, 136. 
     Montaigne, Essais, ii, 12.

          Tales sunt hominum mentes, quali pater ipse
          Jupiter auctiferas lustravit lampade terras.

[64] P. 34, l. 32. Nature gives, etc.—­Montaigne, Essais, i, 19.

[65] P. 37, l. 23. Our nature consists, etc.—­Montaigne, Essais,
     iii, 13.

[66] P. 38, l. 1. Weariness.—­Compare Montaigne, Essais, ii, 12.

[67] P. 38, l. 8. Caesar was too old, etc.—­See Montaigne, Essais,
     ii, 34.

[68] P. 38, l. 30. A mere trifle, etc.—­Montaigne, Essais, iii, 4.

[69] P. 40, l. 21. Advice given to Pyrrhus.—­Ibid., i, 42.

[70] P. 41, l. 2. They do not know, etc.—­Ibid., i, 19.

[71] P. 44, l. 14. They are, etc.—­Compare Montaigne, Essais, i, 38.

[72] P. 46, l. 7. Those who write, etc.—­A thought of Cicero in Pro
     Archia, mentioned by Montaigne, Essais, i, 41.

[73] P. 47, l. 3. Ferox gens.—­Livy, xxxiv, 17.  Montaigne, Essais,
     i, 40.

[74] P. 47, l. 5. Every opinion, etc.—­Montaigne, ibid.

[75] P. 47, l. 12. 184.—­This is a reference to Montaigne, Essais, i,
     40.  See also ibid., iii, 10.

[76] P. 48, l. 8. I know not what (Corneille).—­See Medee, II, vi,
     and Rodogune, I, v.

[77] P. 48, l. 22. In omnibus requiem quaesivi.—­Eccles. xxiv, II, in
     the Vulgate.

[78] P. 50, l. 5. The future alone is our end.—­Montaigne, Essais, i,
     3.

[79] P. 50, l. 14. Solomon.—­Considered by Pascal as the author of
     Ecclesiastes.