The Men Who Abandon Themselves To The

Nothing Can Be Believed Unless It Is First Understood; And That For Any One To Preach To Others That Which Either He Has Not Understood Nor They Have Understood Is Absurd.

And Now, My Friend, I Am Going To Expose To You All My Weaknesses. All Men, I Believe, Are Under A Necessity Of Paying Tribute At Some Time Or Other To Love, And It Is Vain To Strive To Avoid It. I Was A Philosopher, Yet This Tyrant Of The Mind Triumphed Over All My Wisdom; His Darts Were Of Greater Force Than All My Reasonings, And With A Sweet Constraint He Led Me Wherever He Pleased.

We Call An Intention Good Which Is Right In Itself, But The Action Is Good, Not Because It Contains Within It Some Good, But Because It Issues From A Good Intention.

By Doubting We Are Led To Enquire, And By Enquiry We Perceive The Truth.

The Men Who Abandon Themselves To The Passions Of This Miserable Life, Are Compared In Scripture To Beasts.