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• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
• I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
• One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
• Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul,
• I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing,…
• You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
• Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are…
• As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the…
• I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity…
• All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally…
• You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect…
• You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you…

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