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1 I, 2 | persons would perhaps not be great mathematicians, because
2 I, 2 | because mathematics contain a great number of premises, and
3 I, 2 | other able to comprehend a great number of premises without
4 I, 11 | 11. All great amusements are dangerous
5 I, 16 | or belittle that which is great. It is not enough that a
6 I, 31 | have their admirers, and in great number.~
7 I, 57 | these: "I have given you a great deal of trouble," "I am
8 II, 63 | Montaigne's faults are great. Lewd words; this is bad,
9 II, 72 | be true, he finds therein great cause for humiliation, being
10 II, 72 | much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders
11 II, 72 | proximity hinders our view. Too great length and too great brevity
12 II, 72 | Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tend
13 II, 73 | her will. What have those great dogmatists, who are ignorant
14 II, 82 | the imagination has the great gift of persuasion. Reason
15 II, 82 | lively imagination are a great deal more pleased with themselves
16 II, 82 | persons, works, laws, and the great? How insufficient are all
17 II, 82 | than usual, then, however great the truths he announces,
18 II, 84 | insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when
19 II, 86 | pants when eating. Fancy has great weight. Shall we profit
20 II, 87(14) | There is one who will say great foolishness with great effort." ~
21 II, 87(14) | say great foolishness with great effort." ~
22 II, 97 | affirm, "There is nothing great but war; the rest of men
23 II, 97 | in their application. So great is the force of custom that,
24 II, 100 | and wants. He wants to be great, and he sees himself small.
25 II, 100 | reasons which has caused a great part of Europe to rebel
26 II, 103 | are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe
27 II, 113 | united in the person of the great Sultan of the Turks.~
28 II, 139 | believes that hunting is great and royal sport; but a beater
29 II, 140 | only son, or who has some great lawsuit which annoys him,
30 II, 140 | worthy of occupying this great soul and taking away from
31 II, 142 | royal dignity sufficiently great in itself to make its possessor
32 II, 142 | there never fail to be a great number of people who see
33 II, 147 | reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness
34 II, 155 | 155. A true friend is so great an advantage, even for the
35 II, 158 | The charm of fame is so great that we like every object
36 II, 180 | 180. The great and the humble have the
37 III, 194 | They believe they have made great efforts for their instruction
38 III, 194 | a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which
39 III, 194 | persons see.~We do not require great education of the mind to
40 III, 194 | it.~Surely then it is a great evil thus to be in doubt,
41 III, 194 | without fear to try the great event, and let myself be
42 III, 194 | experience has shown me so great a number of such persons
43 III, 198 | and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange
44 III, 233 | justice. There is not so great a disproportion between
45 III, 233 | this road, you will see so great certainty of gain, so much
46 IV, 242 | a complete proof of this great and important matter, the
47 IV, 266 | attack Holy Scripture on the great number of stars, saying, "
48 V, 294 | they recognise it; and the great profit by their ruin and
49 V, 305 | to be thought worthy of great office.~
50 V, 310 | establishment.~The pleasure of the great is the power to make people
51 V, 313 | of birth, is neither so great nor so sure.~
52 V, 316 | foolish, for it proves that a great number of people work for
53 V, 317 | serves to distinguish the great. Now if deference was displayed
54 V, 322 | To be of noble birth is a great advantage. In eighteen years
55 V, 327 | extreme is that reached by great intellects, who, having
56 V, 331 | appearance of speaking of a great matter, it was because they
57 V, 333 | before you the example of great men who esteem them? In
58 VI, 351 | 351. Those great spiritual efforts, which
59 VI, 354(47)| nearly always please the great." ~
60 VI, 357 | crowd towards the infinitely great, so that we lose ourselves
61 VI, 365 | is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How
62 VI, 375 | 375. I have passed a great part of my life believing
63 VI, 391 | 391. Conversation.—Great words: Religion, I deny
64 VI, 397 | The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself
65 VI, 397 | miserable; but it is also being great to know that one is miserable.~
66 VI, 398 | They are the miseries of a great lord, of a deposed king.~
67 VI, 400 | greatness of man.—We have so great an idea of the soul of man
68 VI, 415 | its end, and then he is great and incomparable; the other
69 VI, 416 | is so; but he is really great because he knows it.~
70 VII, 425 | themselves.~And yet, after such a great number of years, no one
71 VII, 430 | that there is in man some great source of greatness and
72 VII, 430 | source of greatness and a great source of wretchedness.
73 VII, 430 | been able to sustain so great glory without falling into
74 VII, 432 | were, nor whether they were great or small. And those who
75 VII, 446 | on Ecclesiastes 9:14: "A great king besieged a little city."
76 VII, 446 | besieged a little city." This great king is the evil leaven;
77 VII, 446 | is the evil leaven; the great bulwarks built against it
78 VII, 511 | we must indeed be very great to judge of it.~
79 VII, 519 | unquam." 87 ~There is a great difference between disciples
80 VII, 530 | from confession he felt great joy and confidence. Another
81 VII, 535 | 535. We owe a great debt to those who point
82 VII, 553 | things as though they were great, because of the majesty
83 VIII, 556 | worship of a God considered as great, powerful, and eternal;
84 VIII, 574 | Greatness.—Religion is so great a thing that it is right
85 VIII, 587 | 587. This religion, so great in miracles, saints, blameless
86 VIII, 587 | blameless Fathers, learned and great witnesses, martyrs, established
87 VIII, 587 | prince of the blood, and so great in science, after having
88 IX, 607 | carnal Jews, was to be a great temporal prince. Jesus Christ,
89 IX, 618 | possess.~I find, then, this great and numerous people, sprung
90 IX, 618 | forerunners and heralds of this great event and to summon all
91 IX, 619 | provided for all things with so great wisdom, equity, and judgement,
92 IX, 620 | it anew, nor to give such great signs of Himself, He began
93 IX, 627 | contemporaneous writers.~There is a great difference between a book
94 X, 661 | They did not believe Him so great as to be eternal, and they
95 X, 664 | the light be darkness, how great is that darkness!"~
96 X, 669 | them out with all these great signs in their favour; that
97 X, 674 | received from God were so great and so divine that He indeed
98 X, 678 | understand the Scriptures.~Two great revelations are these. (
99 XI, 694 | 695. Prophecies.—Great Pan is dead.~
100 XI, 710 | would be proprietors of a great land, and foretold in particular
101 XI, 721 | this kind. Thou sawest a great image, high and terrible,
102 XI, 721 | smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the
103 XI, 721 | which waxed exceedingly great toward the south, and toward
104 XI, 721 | of Israel, and it waxed great even to the host of heaven;
105 XI, 721 | king of Greece, and the great horn that is between his
106 XI, 721 | that shall rule with great dominion, and do according
107 XI, 721 | his dominion shall be a great dominion," (Seleucus, King
108 XI, 721 | assemble a multitude of great forces," (Seleucus Ceraunus,
109 XI, 721 | Ceraunus, Antiochus the Great). "And their army shall
110 XI, 721 | choler, and shall also form a great army, and fight him," (Ptolemy
111 XI, 721 | Philopator against Antiochus the Great at Raphia), "and conquer;
112 XI, 721 | the north," (Antiochus the Great), "shall return with a greater
113 XI, 721 | and in those times also a great number of enemies shall
114 XI, 721 | progress of Antiochus the Great, because he offended the
115 XI, 721 | the son of Antiochus the Great), "shall be a tyrant, a
116 XI, 721 | sides. He shall forecast great devices during his time."~
117 XI, 723 | temple, etc., the heathen in great number worshipped God, and
118 XI, 723 | All this was foretold a great while ago. For two thousand
119 XI, 723 | at the time foretold, a great number of the heathen worshipped
120 XI, 723 | according to the very Rabbis. A great number of the heathen, after
121 XI, 725 | of speaking to indicate a great and an extraordinary change); "
122 XI, 726 | Messiah is spoken of as great and glorious, it is as the
123 XII, 744 | is to have made the Jews great lovers of the things foretold,
124 XII, 744 | the things foretold, and great enemies of their fulfilment.~
125 XII, 745 | Jews were accustomed to great and striking miracles, and
126 XII, 745 | and so, having had the great miracles of the Red Sea
127 XII, 745 | Canaan as an epitome of the great deeds of their Messiah,
128 XII, 751 | sin, the Messiah.~David: a great witness; a king, good, merciful,
129 XII, 763 | probabilities were equally great.~
130 XII, 765 | He alone had to create a great people, elect, holy, and
131 XII, 782 | Christum.) 176 ~All that is great on earth is united together;
132 XII, 784 | glory He is all that is great, being God; and by His mortal
133 XII, 786 | His religion has made a great talk; and that these persons
134 XII, 790 | Him. And at last, under great temptation and on great
135 XII, 790 | great temptation and on great occasions, they kill Him.~
136 XII, 792 | and to all the worldly great.~The greatness of wisdom,
137 XII, 792 | orders differing in kind.~Great geniuses have their power,
138 XII, 792 | without any sin. Oh! in what great pomp and in what wonderful
139 XII, 796 | Christ.—Jesus Christ said great things so simply that it
140 XII, 796 | He had not thought them great; and yet so clearly that
141 XII, 798 | speaks indifferently of a great gift he has just made, and
142 XIII, 816 | considered how it happens that so great credence is given to so
143 XIII, 817 | as there have been very great things true, and as they
144 XIII, 817 | they have been believed by great men, this impression has
145 XIII, 820 | 821. There is a great difference between tempting
146 XIII, 835 | 836. There is a great difference between not being
147 XIII, 837 | and the first saints in great number; because the prophecies
148 XIII, 841 | them the sign of Jonah, the great and wonderful miracle of
149 XIII, 847 | compassion of God is so great that He instructs us to
150 XIV, 856 | obscurity.—There would be too great darkness, if truth had not
151 XIV, 856 | men. There would be too great clearness, if there were
152 XIV, 861 | etc.).~There are then a great number of truths, both of
153 XIV, 867 | he was persecuted, this great saint was a man called Athanasius;
154 XIV, 884 | making priests without such great circumspection that there
155 XIV, 905 | live in high office and great wealth; nothing is more
156 XIV, 918 | and of the Jesuits. The great have wished to be flattered.
157 XIV, 918 | wished to be loved by the great. They have all been worthy
158 XIV, 919 | this is what they will have great difficulty in doing.~Probability.—
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