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;
  a thinking reed, 347, 348;
  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;
  a test of doctrine, 802, 842, 845;
  definition of, 803;
  necessary, 805;
  Christ and 807, 810, 828, 833, 837, 838;
  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

Miton, 192, 448, 455

Montaigne, 18;
  criticism of, 62, 63, 64, 65; 220, 234, 325, 812, 813

Moses, 577, 592, 623, 628, 688, 689, 751, 802

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;
  and God, 229, 242, 243, 244;
  acts by progress, 355;
  the least movement affects all, 505;
  perfections and imperfections of, 579;
  an image of grace, 674