Part 140

Sleep, life compared to, 105

Sneezing absorbs all the faculties of the soul, 31

Society, a beginning of, 56

Socrates, 218

Solitude, the pleasure of, incomprehensible, 34

Sonnet, a bad, comparison of, 302

Sorbonne, corrupted by the Jesuits, 282

Soul, immortality of the, 4, 111

---- is immaterial, 111

---- how little she knows herself, 112

Sovereign good, philosophers do not agree as to the, 112

---- ordinary men's idea of, 112

Space, numbers imitate, 84

Spaniards, 66

Sphere, infinite, 19

Spirit, of men easily disturbed, 27

Spongia solis, 83

State of man, his weakness and uncertainty; nothing so important to man as his condition, 5, 6

Stoics, 49

---- what they propose is difficult and idle, 113

Stream may decide justice or injustice, 66

Strife alone pleases, not the victory, 39

Study of man, why so few undertake it, 82

Style, thoughts on, 301

---- effect a natural, produces, we find a man instead of an author, 303

---- examples of bad, 304

Submission of the reason, only by this can we truly know ourselves, 108, 250

Suetonius, 221