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, 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 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 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 Emilius, Paulus, 409, 410 Enemies, meaning of, in the prophecies, 570, 691 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 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; 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, constituted by thought, 346; even in his lust, 402, 403; 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 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; 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; 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 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 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, 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; 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; definition of, 803; necessary, 805; 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 Montaigne, 18; 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; 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 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 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 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, 148 917, 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; 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 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; 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 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 Sneezing, absorbs all the functions of the soul, 160 Soul, immortality of the, 194, 219, _Spongia solis_, 91 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 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 the law typical, 646, 684; some, clear and demonstrative, 649; 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 introduction.
All the notes at the end of the text were numbered and appropriate anchors inserted in the text.
Note No. 54 on page 28 has the wrong line number and is positioned two notes after where it should be. Corrected the position.
"judgment" was consistently used throughout the text.
| 9 | 32 |"beauty whch consists" - Typo for "which". Corrected.
| 37 | 121 |"that is infinite" - Added a period at the end of the |sentence.
| | 86 | 301 |"It is because they have more reason?" - As in image.
| 129 | 463 |"feel ull of feelings" - Typo corrected to "feel full of |feelings".
| 133 | 479 |"the worst that can can happen" - deleted one "can".
| 134 | 484 |Supplied missing period at the end.
| 158 | 570 |"those whose whose only good" - deleted one "whose" | 162 | 587 |"they come with wisdom and with signs." - Typo corrected |to "they come with wisdom and with signs."
| 165 | 598 |"Jesus Christ caused His wn to be slain." - Typo |corrected to "Jesus Christ caused His own to be slain."
| 170 | 612 |"Salutare taum expectabo, Domine." - As in image.
| 181 | 641 |"but it they have" - Typo corrected to "but if they |have".
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