--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.

[150] P. 100, l. 27. _When it is said_, etc.--By Descartes.

[151] P. 102, l. 20. _Arcesilaus._--A follower of Pyrrho, the sceptic.
He lived in the third century before Christ.

[152] P. 105, l. 20. _Ecclesiastes._--Eccles. viii, 17.

[153] P. 106, l. 16. _The academicians._--Dogmatic sceptics, as opposed
to sceptics who doubt their own doubt.

[154] P. 107, l. 10. _Ego vir videns._--Lamentations iii, I.

[155] P. 108, l. 26. _Evil is easy_, etc.--The Pythagoreans considered
the good as certain and finite, and evil as uncertain and
infinite. Montaigne, _Essais_, i, 9.

[156] P. 109, l. 7. _Paulus AEmilius._--Montaigne, _Essais_, i, 19.
Cicero, _Tusc._, v, 40.

[157] P. 109, l. 30. _Des Barreaux._--Author of a licentious love song.
He was born in 1602, and died in 1673. Balzac call him "the new
Bacchus."

[158] P. 110, l. 16. _For Port-Royal._--The letters, A. P. R., occur in
several places, and are generally thought to indicate what will be
afterwards treated in lectures or conferences at Port-Royal, the
famous Cistercian abbey, situated about eighteen miles from Paris.
Founded early in the thirteenth century, it acquired its greatest
fame in its closing years. Louis XIV was induced to believe it
heretical; and the monastery was finally demolished in 1711. Its
downfall was no doubt brought about by the Jesuits.

[159] P. 113, l. 4. _They all tend to this