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1 I, 1 | mathematicians are intuitive and that men of intuition are mathematicians,
2 I, 1 | expression of it is beyond all men, and only a few can feel
3 I, 1 | principles are quite clear.~And men of intuition who are only
4 I, 7 | originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no
5 I, 7 | find no difference between men.~
6 I, 18 | error which exists among men that the moon is the cause
7 I, 41 | but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but
8 II, 61 | vanity of all conditions of men, to show the vanity of ordinary
9 II, 63 | always our duty not to turn men from it. One can excuse
10 II, 68 | 68. Men are never taught to be gentlemen
11 II, 72 | contemplate these Infinites, men have rashly rushed into
12 II, 82 | fools, I speak of the wisest men; and it is among them that
13 II, 82 | all-powerful she is. She makes men happy and sad, healthy and
14 II, 82 | be. They look down upon men with haughtiness; they argue
15 II, 82 | enumerate almost every action of men who scarce waver save under
16 II, 82 | foolish by the generality of men. We must judge by the opinion
17 II, 82 | arise all the disputes of men, who taunt each other either
18 II, 82 | it recommended to these men by their near relatives.~
19 II, 97 | decides it. Custom makes men masons, soldiers, slaters. "
20 II, 97 | great but war; the rest of men are good for nothing." We
21 II, 97 | whom nature has only made men, are created all conditions
22 II, 97 | created all conditions of men. For some districts are
23 II, 98 | deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone,
24 II, 100 | of love and esteem among men, and he sees that his faults
25 II, 100 | remain hidden from all other men save one, to whom she bids
26 II, 100 | were right to do to all men! For is it right that we
27 II, 100 | right that we should deceive men?~There are different degrees
28 II, 100 | some advantage in making men love us. Human life is thus
29 II, 100 | only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each
30 II, 101 | down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the
31 II, 101 | time. I say, further, all men would be...~
32 II, 103 | sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe
33 II, 103 | matters they are ordinary men. We hold on to them by the
34 II, 103 | some point to the lowest of men. They are not suspended
35 II, 111 | organs when playing upon man. Men are organs, it is true,
36 II, 132 | Alexander. They were still young men and thus difficult to restrain.
37 II, 138 | 138. Men naturally slaters and of
38 II, 139 | different distractions of men, the pains and perils to
39 II, 139 | that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact,
40 II, 139 | budge from the town; and men only seek conversation and
41 II, 139 | happiness in them, or that men imagine true bliss to consist
42 II, 139 | quarry.~Hence it comes that men so much love noise and stir;
43 II, 139 | condition of kings that men try incessantly to divert
44 II, 139 | himself.~This is all that men have been able to discover
45 II, 139 | the matter, and who think men unreasonable for spending
46 II, 139 | misunderstand nature.~As men who naturally understand
47 II, 139 | passes away all man's life. Men seek rest in a struggle
48 II, 141 | 141. Men spend their time in following
49 II, 143 | 143. Diversion.—Men are entrusted from infancy
50 II, 167 | established all this: as men have seen this, they have
51 II, 168 | 168. Diversion.—As men are not able to fight against
52 II, 174 | the most unfortunate of men; the former knowing the
53 III, 187 | 187. Order.—Men despise religion; they hate
54 III, 187 | it lovable, to make good men hope it is true; finally,
55 III, 193(24) | What will become of men who mistake small things
56 III, 194 | the contrary, it says that men are in darkness and estranged
57 III, 194 | search in books and among men. But, verily, I will tell
58 III, 194 | religion to have for enemies men so unreasonable; and their
59 III, 194 | I contend that, if these men do not serve to prove the
60 III, 194 | natural that there should be men indifferent to the loss
61 III, 194 | even I say among those men of the world who take a
62 III, 194 | friend; because naturally men love only what may be useful
63 III, 194 | themselves the most conceited of men. If, at the bottom of their
64 III, 194 | them at least be honest men, if they cannot be Christians.
65 III, 195 | the sinfulness of those men who live in indifference
66 III, 195 | of reason, the conduct of men is wholly unreasonable,
67 III, 195 | their folly. For this is how men reason, when they choose
68 III, 196 | 196. Men lack heart; they would not
69 III, 199 | Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned
70 III, 199 | image of the condition of men.~
71 III, 211 | that we value the esteem of men more than the search for
72 III, 226 | brutes live and die like men, and Turks like Christians?
73 III, 233 | is demonstrable; and if men are capable of any truths,
74 IV, 242 | corruption of nature, He has left men in a darkness from which
75 IV, 244 | respect to the majority of men.~
76 IV, 252 | custom that makes so many men Christians; custom that
77 IV, 260 | were the rule of belief, men of ancient time would then
78 IV, 260 | If general consent, if men had perished?~False humanity,
79 IV, 260 | no rule whereby to judge men?~To deny, to believe, and
80 IV, 262 | born of faith, and because men hope in the God in whom
81 IV, 262 | joined to despair, because men fear the God in whom they
82 IV, 275 | 275. Men often take their imagination
83 IV, 284 | their heart to believe. Men will never believe with
84 IV, 286 | hear our religion say that men must love God only, and
85 IV, 286 | is required to persuade men who have this disposition
86 V, 294 | of all that obtain among men, that each should follow
87 V, 294 | error on the other side.~Men admit that justice does
88 V, 294 | farce is that the caprice of men has so many vagaries that
89 V, 294 | from a contrary mistake men sometimes think they can
90 V, 294 | was necessary to deceive men for their own good; and
91 V, 296 | make war and kill so many men—condemn so many Spaniards
92 V, 299 | cause might to obey justice, men have made it just to obey
93 V, 304 | which bind the respect of men to each other are in general
94 V, 304 | be different degrees, all men wishing to rule, and not
95 V, 304 | the process of formation. Men will doubtless fight till
96 V, 304 | which bind the respect of men to such and such an individual
97 V, 315 | effects.—It is wonderful that men would not have me honour
98 V, 319 | rightly do we distinguish men by external appearances
99 V, 320 | because of the unruliness of men. What is less reasonable
100 V, 320 | and unjust; but, because men are so themselves and always
101 V, 320 | and just. For whom will men choose, as the most virtuous
102 V, 324 | In having distinguished men by external marks, as birth
103 V, 327 | natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth.
104 V, 327 | having run through all that men can know, find they know
105 V, 331 | robes. They were honest men, like others, laughing with
106 V, 333 | you the example of great men who esteem them? In answer
107 V, 338 | who for the punishment of men has made them subject to
108 VI, 354 | fever.~The discoveries of men from age to age turn out
109 VI, 374 | astonished at its own weakness. Men act seriously, and each
110 VI, 375 | changes in all nations and men, and thus, after many changes
111 VI, 377 | believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility,
112 VI, 380 | must be inequality among men; but if this be conceded,
113 VI, 383 | 383. The licentious tell men of orderly lives that they
114 VI, 388 | foolish enough to declare that men are not acting in good faith,
115 VI, 392 | and that every time two men see a body change its place,
116 VI, 400 | and all the happiness of men consists in this esteem.~
117 VI, 401 | his oats to another, as men would have others do to
118 VI, 404 | he has not the esteem of men. He values human reason
119 VI, 404 | And those who must despise men, and put them on a level
120 VI, 404 | admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves
121 VI, 406 | seeking it. This is what all men do. Let us see who will
122 VI, 409 | be held for a time. But men thought Perseus so unhappy
123 VI, 414 | 414. Men are so necessarily mad that
124 VI, 416 | certain that, in proportion as men possess light, they discover
125 VII, 425 | true good, nor justice.~All men seek happiness. This is
126 VII, 425 | universal good, which all men desire, should not consist
127 VII, 430 | says, "nor consolation from men. I am she who formed you,
128 VII, 430 | Such is the state in which men now are. There remains to
129 VII, 430 | which have astonished all men and have divided them into
130 VII, 430 | Prosopopaea).—"It is in vain, O men, that you seek within yourselves
131 VII, 430 | unrighteousness, which these wise men never knew. I alone can
132 VII, 430 | God has willed to redeem men and to open salvation to
133 VII, 430 | to those who seek it. But men render themselves so unworthy
134 VII, 430 | capable of convincing all men; but it was also not right
135 VII, 431 | ungrateful the low opinions which men naturally have of themselves;
136 VII, 431 | Raise your heads, free men," says Epictetus. And others
137 VII, 431 | him to it? The greatest men have failed.~
138 VII, 432 | is true; for, after all, men before Jesus Christ did
139 VII, 434 | there is open war among men, in which each must take
140 VII, 434 | then, will you become, O men! who try to find out by
141 VII, 434(65) | delights were with the sons of men." ~
142 VII, 434(70) | the estate of the sons of men." ~
143 VII, 435 | divine knowledge what could men do but either become elated
144 VII, 435 | instructing and correcting men.~Who, then, can refuse to
145 VII, 436 | Weakness.—Every pursuit of men is to get wealth; and they
146 VII, 443 | discover in man. Ordinary men—those who are more educated:
147 VII, 443 | they astonish ordinary men—Christians, they astonish
148 VII, 444 | taught to her children what men have only been able to discover
149 VII, 445 | Original sin is foolishness to men, but it is admitted to be
150 VII, 445 | wiser than all the wisdom of men, sapientius est hominibus. 71
151 VII, 445(71) | foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God
152 VII, 445(71) | of God is stronger than men." ~
153 VII, 447 | Will it be said that, as men have declared that righteousness
154 VII, 448 | nature is corrupt and that men are averse to virtue; he
155 VII, 451 | 451. All men naturally hate one another.
156 VII, 453 | 453. From lust men have found and extracted
157 VII, 460 | reign over all, and all men must be brought back to
158 VII, 462 | the true good.—Ordinary men place the good in fortune
159 VII, 463 | be loved and admired of men and do not know their own
160 VII, 463 | themselves in the esteem of men, and if their whole perfection
161 VII, 463 | consists only in making men—but without constraint—find
162 VII, 463 | not desired solely that men should love Him, but that
163 VII, 463 | should love Him, but that men should stop short at them!
164 VII, 463 | the voluntary delight of men.~
165 VII, 466 | perfectly, he would have said to men, "You follow a wrong road";
166 VII, 468 | religion has proposed to men to hate themselves. No other
167 VII, 470 | Had I seen a miracle," say men, "I should become converted."
168 VII, 471 | 471. It is unjust that men should attach themselves
169 VII, 485 | is true of each and all men. Now, only the Universal
170 VII, 490 | 490. Men, not being accustomed to
171 VII, 498 | which God can make with men in this life is to leave
172 VII, 499 | and another which pleases men; as the greatness of Saint
173 VII, 499 | revelations; what pleased men was her light. And so we
174 VII, 534 | There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe
175 VII, 543 | remote from the reasoning of men, and so complicated, that
176 VII, 545 | Christ did nothing but teach men that they loved themselves,
177 VII, 547 | is, then, the true God of men.~But we know at the same
178 VII, 550 | neither evil nor good from men. I try to be just, true,
179 VII, 550 | sincere, and faithful to all men; I have a tender heart for
180 VII, 550 | whether I am alone, or seen of men, I do all my actions in
181 VII, 553 | passions the torments which men inflict upon Him; but in
182 VII, 553 | companionship and comfort from men. This is the sole occasion
183 VII, 553 | John). 97 ~Jesus asked of men and was not heard.~Jesus,
184 VII, 553 | This is good or bad"; and men mourn or rejoice too much
185 VIII, 556 | 556.... Men blaspheme what they do not
186 VIII, 556 | It is of equal concern to men to know them, and it is
187 VIII, 556 | the greatness of religion. Men must have within them feelings
188 VIII, 556 | not manifest Himself to men with all the evidence which
189 VIII, 556 | and divine, has redeemed men from the corruption of sin
190 VIII, 556 | religion, then, teaches men these two truths; that there
191 VIII, 556 | that there is a God whom men can know, and that there
192 VIII, 556 | is equally important to men to know both these points;
193 VIII, 556 | the life and fortunes of men, to bestow on those who
194 VIII, 556 | Jesus Christ, and to teach men both their corruption and
195 VIII, 557 | those who seek Him, because men are both unworthy and capable
196 VIII, 559 | with the unworthiness of men to know Him; but His occasional,
197 VIII, 559 | there is a God and that men are unworthy of Him.~
198 VIII, 564 | reason which can determine men not to follow it, and thus
199 VIII, 571 | which divide the wills of men, covetousness and charity.
200 VIII, 584 | and judgement, not as if men were placed in it out of
201 IX, 590 | 590. Men must be sincere in all religions;
202 IX, 597 | prophet for calling honest men wicked, or for not agreeing
203 IX, 601 | continue in existence, forbade men to read it, Moses, for the
204 IX, 604 | has always existed among men.~
205 IX, 609 | There are two kinds of men in each religion: among
206 IX, 612 | for which all things are.~Men have in the first age of
207 IX, 612 | Noah saw the wickedness of men at its height; and he was
208 IX, 612 | there were always chosen men who foretold the coming
209 IX, 615 | fulfilled in the sight of men, showed the truth of their
210 IX, 616 | that there have been found men who said that God had revealed
211 IX, 618 | His mysteries; that all men are corrupt and in disgrace
212 IX, 618 | world to announce Him to men; that they are expressly
213 IX, 619 | time revealed himself to men, it is to these we must
214 IX, 621 | the world, and that all men might thereby learn a fact
215 IX, 623 | Moses make the lives of men so long, and their generations
216 IX, 623 | perverted only by the change of men. And yet he puts two things,
217 IX, 625 | age of reason. Now, when men lived so long, children
218 IX, 625 | history was reduced, and men did not study science or
219 X, 642 | cause.~The ordinary life of men is like that of the saints.
220 X, 643 | should be born of woman, when men were still so near the creation
221 X, 643 | enough to confirm the hope of men.~The memory of the Deluge
222 X, 643 | Deluge being so fresh among men, while Noah was still alive,
223 X, 649 | obscurities in them.~It is like men, who employ a certain obscure
224 X, 655 | covenant, only one age of men, and the creation would
225 X, 669 | expected glory; and thus men did not think it was He.
226 X, 669 | Saint Paul came to teach men that all these things had
227 X, 669 | spirit; that the enemies of men were not the Babylonians,
228 X, 671 | Spirit; and that thus, as men certainly had this without
229 X, 675 | themselves.~But how well disposed men are to understand them and
230 X, 686 | spoken of after the manner of men; and this means nothing
231 X, 686 | that the intention which men have in giving a seat at
232 XI, 709 | Here is a succession of men during four thousand years,
233 XI, 712 | house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant.
234 XI, 712 | as a sealed book, which men deliver to one that is learned,
235 XI, 712 | the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and their
236 XI, 712 | desolate places as dead men.~"We roar all like bears,
237 XI, 721 | thy soothsayers and wise men cannot shew unto thee the
238 XI, 723 | virginity and their life to God. Men renounced their pleasures.
239 XI, 723 | make acceptable to a few men, specially chosen and instructed,
240 XI, 723 | hundred million ignorant men.~The rich left their wealth.
241 XI, 725 | being my protector?~"All men shall pass away, and be
242 XI, 725 | the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. They that
243 XI, 729 | down all idols and bring men into the worship of the
244 XI, 732 | 733. That He would teach men the perfect way.~And there
245 XII, 736 | constantly announced to men that they were universally
246 XII, 736 | said it, but innumerable men, and a whole nation expressly
247 XII, 736(145)| respondebit: Non possum. "Which men deliver to one that is learned...
248 XII, 777 | of all the conditions of men who came there.~From these
249 XII, 778 | 779. If men knew themselves, God would
250 XII, 780 | advantage of a fault in men who at once apply this exception
251 XII, 780 | from it to favour hope. For men thus accustom themselves
252 XII, 782 | Jesus Christ comes to tell men that they have no other
253 XII, 782 | the latter. To this all men are opposed, not only from
254 XII, 782 | these oppositions, these men, simple and weak, resist
255 XII, 782 | these kings, these learned men and these sages, and remove
256 XII, 788 | Christ remained unknown among men, so His truth remains among
257 XII, 792 | The greatness of clever men is invisible to kings, to
258 XII, 792 | given his discoveries to all men. Oh! how brilliant he was
259 XII, 799 | afflicts Himself; and when men afflict Him, He is altogether
260 XII, 800 | us imagine those twelve men, assembled after the death
261 XIII, 806 | 807. In all times, either men have spoken of the true
262 XIII, 806 | the true God has spoken to men.~
263 XIII, 812 | How I hate those who make men doubt of miracles! Montaigne
264 XIII, 816 | Title: How it happens that men believe so many liars, who
265 XIII, 816 | they have secrets to make men immortal, or restore youth
266 XIII, 816 | often to the length of men putting their lives into
267 XIII, 816 | incurable, it is impossible that men should have imagined that
268 XIII, 816 | knowledge of the greatest men, the belief of men is thereby
269 XIII, 816 | greatest men, the belief of men is thereby induced; and,
270 XIII, 816 | nothing true in all this, men would have believed nothing
271 XIII, 816 | would not be possible that men should have imagined so
272 XIII, 817 | is almost impossible that men should have imagined it,
273 XIII, 817 | have been believed by great men, this impression has been
274 XIII, 820 | impose no necessity; if men do not love God, they will
275 XIII, 825 | that in the time of Moses men should keep their faith
276 XIII, 828 | during His life; and so men would not have been culpable
277 XIII, 831 | free to appear. Then, as men speak no longer of truth,
278 XIII, 831 | truth itself must speak to men. This is what happened in
279 XIII, 838 | His power.~These are not men who do miracles by an unknown
280 XIII, 838 | chooses this, and makes men come from all quarters there
281 XIII, 842 | wanders unknown amongst men. God has covered her with
282 XIII, 842 | mutual duty between God and men. We must pardon Him this
283 XIII, 842 | fulfil His promises," etc.~Men owe it to God to accept
284 XIII, 842 | He sends. God owes it to men not to lead them into error.
285 XIII, 842 | miracles had not already wamed men not to believe them.~Thus,
286 XIII, 842 | and not the Catholics, men should have been led into
287 XIII, 842 | shall we be able to persuade men of all doctrine? No; for
288 XIII, 842 | from the duty of God to men, that a man, hiding his
289 XIII, 843 | has seen; for the folly of men goes perhaps to the length
290 XIII, 845 | side of those in error, men would be led into error.
291 XIII, 849 | necessary that God should warn men not to believe in them in
292 XIII, 849 | have been able to disturb men.~And thus so far from these
293 XIII, 854 | 855. I suppose that men believe miracles. You corrupt
294 XIV, 856 | one visible assembly of men. There would be too great
295 XIV, 877 | opinion of the least able.~If men could have done it, they
296 XIV, 877 | itself to be managed as men want, because it is a palpable
297 XIV, 877 | spiritual quality of which men dispose as they please,
298 XIV, 877 | that is called just which men are forced to obey.~Hence
299 XIV, 879 | 880. Men like certainty. They like
300 XIV, 883 | without power over the will of men; a predestination without
301 XIV, 888 | corruption.~For if some of these men, who, by an extraordinary
302 XIV, 894 | 895. Men never do evil so completely
303 XIV, 902 | Jesus Christ bequeathed to men of old to be handed down
304 XIV, 902 | with the precepts which the men of old left to her, and
305 XIV, 903 | rule of exception.~Have the men of old given absolution
306 XIV, 904 | will make an assembly of men whose external manners are
307 XIV, 904 | cannot deceive, they are of men, whom they do deceive. And
308 XIV, 904 | away from her all choice of men, you retain in the Church
309 XIV, 914 | Montalte.—Lax opinions please men so much, that it is strange
310 XIV, 919 | better to obey God than men."~I fear nothing; I hope
311 XIV, 920 | and the devil deceived men by this apparent resemblance
312 XIV, 920 | if you do not fear that men do justice, do you not fear
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