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We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul,

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

When I touch a human hand, I touch heaven.

I am not my own light unto myself.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

We are not our own light.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Imagination is the mad boarder.

We are made to know and love God.

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.