P. 43. The Greatness and Littleness of Man. The title suggested by Pascal, in many passages of the autograph MS.
P. 43, l. 11. for Port Royal. The letters A. P. R. occur in several places in Pascal's MS. It is generally thought that they mean à Port-Royal, and are intended to indicate subjects to be developed later in conférences or lectures at that house.
P. 45, l. 1. Man is neither angel nor brute. This is closely borrowed from Montaigne, Essais, l. iii. ch. xiii.
P. 46, l. 15. Corrumpunt mores bonos colloquia prava. 1 ad Cor. xv. 33, but the Vulgate reading has mala.
P. 47, l. 18. Paulus Emilius. The example is taken from Montaigne, Essais, l. i. ch. xix. See also Cic. Tuscul. v. 40.
P. 47, l. 31. Ego vir videns, Lament, iii. 1. Ego vir videns paupertatem meam in virga indignationis ejus.
P. 51. Of the deceptive powers, etc. This is Pascal's own title for this section.
P. 51, l. 14. Imagination. Pascal uses this word in an extended sense already given to it by Montaigne, and means that faculty by which we attribute a value to those things which in fact have none.
P. 53, l. 11. furred cats. Rabelais, bk. v. ch. 11.
P. 54, l. 2. Della Opinione. No work is known under this name. Pascal possibly means a work of Carlo Flosi, L'Opinione tiranna, moralmente considerata ne gli affari del mondo, Mondovi, 1690. But it is not certain that this edition is the reprint of a work extant before Pascal wrote.