P. 54, l. 27. Diseases are another source of error. Taken from Montaigne, Essais, l. ii. ch. xii.
P. 56, l. 20. in Switzerland that of the burgesses. This may be compared with p. 66, l. 6. In the majority of Swiss towns every candidate for municipal office must needs possess the freedom of the town, but the intention was not to set aside those of noble birth, as Pascal supposes, but foreigners, and those of other towns, each of which was considered as a separate state.
P. 57, l. 27. would care nothing for Provence. Compare Montaigne, Essais, l. i. ch. xxii. "C'est par l'entremise de la coustume que chascun est contant du lieu où nature l'a planté: et les sauvages d'Escosse n'ont que faire de la Touraine, ny les Scythes de la Thessalie."
P. 57, l. 28. Ferox gens. Livy, l. xxxiv. c. 17.
P. 58. l. 20. Brave deeds. Borrowed from Montaigne, Essais, l. i. ch. xl.
P. 61. Of Justice, etc. These fragments, now among the best known of Pascal's Thoughts, but for the most part brought to notice in the Edition of Bossut, 1779, have their present arrangement and title from Molinier.
P. 61, l. 30. Nihil amplius. These sentences, borrowed from Montaigne, are quoted, the first of them wrongly, from Cicero, De Finibus, v. 21; the second from Seneca, Ad Lucilium, Ep. 95; the third from Tacitus, Annales, iii. 25. Compare with the whole passage Montaigne, Essais, l. ii. ch. xii. and l. iii. ch. xiii.
P. 62, l. 29. Quum veritatem. S. Aug., De Civit. Dei, iv. 31. From Montaigne, Essais, l. ii. ch. iii.
P. 62, l. 27. the wisest of law givers. Socrates, in the Republic of Plato.