Part 124

Letters, arrangement by, 253

Liancourt, the frog and the pike of, 313

Liars, some are, simply for lying's sake, 77

Life, the frailest thing in the world, 12

---- its short duration, 28

---- the last act of, 75

---- a perpetual illusion, 86

---- compared to a dream, 105

---- religious, both easy and difficult, 248

Lingende, Father, 267

Littleness of man, what we call nature in animals is, 47

Logicians, 65

Love, why it changes its object, 32

---- shows the frivolity of man, 60

---- representation of, at the theatre, 248

---- source of faith, 289

Lust, threefold division of, 243

---- the three kinds of, have made three sects, 113

Lusts, compared to three rivers, 243

Lute, to be skilled in playing the, 72

Machine, letter which shows the use of proofs by the, 254

---- of Descartes; defects of this hypothesis, 312

---- the calculating, compared to animals, 313

Macrobius, 221

Mad, men are of necessity, 78

Magistrate, taken as an example of influence of imagination, 52

---- the pomp with which they are surrounded, 53

Mahomet, the soldiers of, 65