Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

3. In being offended at a blow, on in desiring glory so much. But it is

very desirable on account of the other essential goods which are joined to it; and a man who has received a blow, without resenting it, is overwhelmed with taunts and indignities.

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
INTRODUCTION BY Ch.2
INTRODUCTION Ch.3
introduction to the _Pensees_, are as follows. He was born at Clermont, Ch.4
INTRODUCTION By T. S. Eliot vii Ch.5
Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] Ch.6
part I tell you, "You would soon have faith, if you renounced pleasure." Ch.7
1. In having preferred diversion and hunting to poetry. The half-learned Ch.8
2. In having distinguished men by external marks, as birth or wealth. Ch.9
3. In being offended at a blow, on in desiring glory so much. But it is Ch.10
4. In working for the uncertain; in sailing on the sea; in walking over Ch.11
3. To make us deserve other virtues by work. Ch.12
2. Proof by the Rabbis. Moses Maimonides says that it has two aspects, Ch.13
4. Proof by the mystical interpretation which the Rabbis themselves give Ch.14
5. Proof by the principles of the Rabbis, that there are two meanings; Ch.15
10. Montaigne, _Essais_, ii, 12. Ch.16
40. See also ibid., iii, 10. Ch.17
13. Tacitus, _Ann._, iii, 25. Ch.18
36. See also iii, 1. Ch.19
introduction. Ch.20