Blande puer, lumen quod habes concede parenti;
Si tu cæcus Amor, sic erit illa Venus.
P. 81, l. 12. Ambitiosa recidet ornamenta. Horace, De Arte Poetica, v. 447.
P. 83, l. 22. Spongia solis. The spots on the sun. Du Cange explains spongia by macula. Pascal seems to mean that the spots on the sun prepare us for its total extinction; that the sun will eventually expire, so that, contrary as it seems to the course of nature, there will come a day when there will be no sun.
P. 89. The title given to this second part is furnished by Pascal. In the first part he has wished to prove the fallen state of man, and his weakness; he now maintains that man may be restored by faith in Jesus Christ, and the practice of religion.
P. 91, l. 26. Nemo novit. Matt. xi. 27. Et nemo novit Filium nisi Pater: neque Patrem quis novit, nisi Filius, et cui voluerit Filius revelare.
P. 92, l. 3. Vere tu es. Is. xlv. 15, see [p. 3], l. 8.
P. 92, l. 10. Quod curiositate cognoverint. Probably cited from recollection of Saint Augustine, but the passage is not verbally to be found.
P. 96, l. 6. neither the stars.
Porrum et cæpe nefas violare et frangere morsu