[125] P. 95, l. 3. Omnis ... vanitati.—­Eccles. iii, 19.

[126] P. 95, l. 4. Liberabitur.—­Romans viii, 20-21.

[127] P. 95, l. 4. Saint Thomas.—­In his Commentary on the Epistle of
      St. James.  James ii, 1.

[128] P. 96, l. 9. The account of the pike and frog of Liancourt.—­The
      story is unknown.  The Duc de Liancourt led a vicious life in
      youth, but was converted by his wife.  He became one of the firmest
      supporters of Port-Royal.

[129] P. 97, l. 18. Philosophers.—­The Stoics.

[130] P. 97, l. 24. Epictetus.—­Diss., iv, 7.

[131] P. 97, l. 26. Those great spiritual efforts, etc.—­On this, and
      the following fragment, see Montaigne, Essais, ii, 29.

[132] P. 98, l. 3. Epaminondas.—­Praised by Montaigne, Essais, ii,
      36.  See also iii, 1.

[133] P. 98, l. 17. Plerumque gratae principibus vices.—­Horace,
      Odes, III, xxix, 13, cited by Montaigne, Essais, i, 42.  Horace
      has divitibus instead of principibus.

[134] P. 99, l. 4. Man is neither angel nor brute, etc.—­Montaigne,
      Essais, iii, 13.

[135] P. 99, l. 14. Ut sis contentus, etc.—­A quotation from Seneca. 
      See Montaigne, Essais, ii, 3.

[136] P. 99, l. 21. Sen. 588.—­Seneca, Letter to Lucilius, xv. 
      Montaigne, Essais, iii, I.

[137] P. 99, l. 23. Divin.—­Cicero, De Divin., ii, 58.

[138] P. 99, l. 25. Cic.—­Cicero, Tusc, ii, 2.  The quotation is
      inaccurate.  Montaigne, Essais, ii, 12.

[139] P. 99, l. 27. Senec.—­Seneca, Epist., 106.

[140] P. 99, l. 28. Id maxime, etc.—­Cicero, De Off., i, 31.

[141] P. 99, l. 29. Hos natura, etc.—­Virgil, Georgics, ii, 20.

[142] P. 99, l. 30. Paucis opus, etc.—­Seneca, Epist., 106.

[143] P. 100, l. 3. Mihi sic usus, etc.—­Terence, Heaut., I, i, 28.

[144] P. 100, l. 4. Rarum est, etc.—­Quintilian, x, 7.

[145] P. 100, l. 5. Tot circa, etc.—­M.  Seneca, Suasoriae, i, 4.

[146] P. 100, l. 6. Cic.—­Cicero, Acad., i, 45.

[147] P. 100, l. 7. Nec me pudet, etc.—­Cicero, Tusc., i, 25.

[148] P. 100, l. 8. Melius non incipiet.—­The rest of the quotation is
      quam desinet.  Seneca, Epist., 72.

[149] P. 100, l. 25. They win battles.—­Montaigne, in his Essais,
      ii, 12, relates that the Portuguese were compelled to raise the
      siege of Tamly on account of the number of flies.