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1 I, 9 | arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything,
2 I, 16 | studied well the heart of man so as to know all its powers
3 I, 18 | which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon,
4 I, 18 | For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about
5 I, 28 | based also on the face of man; whence it happens that
6 I, 29 | an author, and we find a man. Whereas those who have
7 I, 29 | a book, expect to find a man, are quite surprised to
8 I, 29(2) | more as a poet than as a man." ~
9 I, 34 | therefore false praise to give a man when we say of him, on his
10 I, 34 | it is a bad sign when a man is not asked to give his
11 I, 35 | not be able to say of a man, "He is a mathematician,"
12 I, 35 | prevail and designate the man. Let none think him a fine
13 I, 36 | 36. Man is full of wants: he loves
14 I, 36 | I need, then, an upright man who can accommodate himself
15 I, 38 | A poet and not an honest man.~
16 I, 41 | 41. Epigrams of Martial.—Man loves malice, but not against
17 II | SECTION II: THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD ~
18 II, 60 | 60. First part: Misery of man without God.~Second part:
19 II, 60 | Second part: Happiness of man with God.~Or, First part:
20 II, 63 | pagan views on death, for a man must renounce piety altogether,
21 II, 72 | 72. Man's disproportion.—This is
22 II, 72 | true, there is no truth in man; and if it be true, he finds
23 II, 72 | proportion there is... Let man then contemplate the whole
24 II, 72 | Returning to himself, let man consider what he is in comparison
25 II, 72 | and himself. What is a man in the Infinite?~But to
26 II, 72 | presumption.~For, in fact, what is man in nature? A Nothing in
27 II, 72 | extreme, what matters it that man should have a little more
28 II, 72 | finite is painful to us.~If man made himself the first object
29 II, 72 | other and without the whole.~Man, for instance, is related
30 II, 72 | with everything. To know man, then, it is necessary to
31 II, 72 | thus related to the life of man, etc. Flame cannot exist
32 II, 72 | thing we least understand. Man is to himself the most wonderful
33 II, 72(7) | can not be understood by man; and yet it is man." ~
34 II, 72(7) | understood by man; and yet it is man." ~
35 II, 82 | is that deceitful part in man, that mistress of error
36 II, 82 | dominate it, has established in man a second nature to show
37 II, 82 | which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.
38 II, 82 | to regard as an ordinary man the Grand Turk, in his superb
39 II, 82 | out our eyes. The justest man in the world is not allowed
40 II, 82 | false than on the true.~Man is so happily formed that
41 II, 83 | on the deceptive powers. Man is only a subject full of
42 II, 87(16) | anyone more unhappy than a man dominated by his imagination." ~
43 II, 94 | 94. The nature of man is wholly natural, omne
44 II, 97 | ascendancy and preserves man's instinct, in spite of
45 II, 98 | And that fixes for each man his condition of locksmith,
46 II, 100 | self only. But what will man do? He cannot prevent this
47 II, 100 | There is only this one man in the world whom she orders
48 II, 100 | And yet the corruption of man is such that he finds even
49 II, 100 | unreasonable is the heart of man, which feels it disagreeable
50 II, 100 | obliged to do in regard to one man what in some measure it
51 II, 100 | sincerity and without passion.~Man is, then, only disguise,
52 II, 106 | 106. By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are
53 II, 111 | organs when playing upon man. Men are organs, it is true,
54 II, 115 | time how many sciences? A man is a whole; but if we dissect
55 II, 116 | How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And
56 II, 116 | by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he
57 II, 117 | conditions. "How much this man drinks! How little that
58 II, 125 | 125. Contraries.—Man is naturally credulous and
59 II, 126 | 126. Description of man: dependency, desire of independence,
60 II, 127 | 127. Condition of man: inconstancy, weariness,
61 II, 128 | which we are attached. A man dwells at home with pleasure;
62 II, 131 | Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest,
63 II, 139 | in their own chamber. A man who has enough to live on,
64 II, 139 | of difficulties.~To bid a man live quietly is to bid him
65 II, 139 | censured do not understand man's true nature.~And thus,
66 II, 139 | rest.~Thus passes away all man's life. Men seek rest in
67 II, 139 | poison.~Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even
68 II, 139 | longer be foolish.~This man spends his life without
69 II, 139 | Whence comes it that this man, who lost his only son a
70 II, 139 | However full of sadness a man may be, he is happy for
71 II, 139 | amusement; and however happy a man may be, he will soon be
72 II, 140 | does it happen that this man, so distressed at the death
73 II, 140 | thought of the mind. This man, born to know the universe,
74 II, 140 | after all, he is only a man, that is to say capable
75 II, 140 | neither angel nor brute, but man.~
76 II, 142 | folk? I see well that a man is made happy by diverting
77 II, 142 | king without diversion is a man full of wretchedness. So
78 II, 143 | ribaldry is the heart of man!~
79 II, 144 | I commenced the study of man, I saw that these abstract
80 II, 144 | sciences are not suited to man and that I was wandering
81 II, 144 | companions in the study of man and that it was the true
82 II, 144 | not the knowledge which man should have and that for
83 II, 146 | 146. Man is obviously made to think.
84 II, 146 | a king and what to be a man.~
85 II, 150 | anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier'
86 II, 160 | against the greatness of man, because it is against his
87 II, 160 | proof of the weakness of man and of his slavery under
88 II, 160 | It is not disgraceful for man to yield to pain, and it
89 II, 160 | the situation; and in this man yields to himself. But in
90 II, 160 | himself. But in pleasure it is man who yields to pleasure.
91 II, 162 | know fully the vanity of man has only to consider the
92 II, 169 | Despite these miseries, man wishes to be happy, and
93 II, 170 | 170. Diversion.—If man were happy, he would be
94 II, 174 | spoken of the misery of man; the former the most fortunate,
95 III, 187 | has perfect knowledge of man; lovable because it promises
96 III, 194 | argument occurs to a reasonable man?~"I know not who put me
97 III, 194 | desire to have for a friend a man who talks in this fashion?
98 III, 194 | Nothing is so important to man as his own state, nothing
99 III, 194 | feel them. And this same man who spends so many days
100 III, 194 | confusion in the nature of man, that he should boast of
101 III, 194 | by hearing it said of a man that he has now thrown off
102 III, 194 | the misery of a godless man. Nothing is more indicative
103 III, 198 | 198. The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility
104 III, 200 | 200. A man in a dungeon, ignorant whether
105 III, 200 | it is against nature that man, etc. It is making heavy
106 III, 215 | danger, for one must be a man.~
107 III, 223 | difficult, to produce a man or an animal, or to reproduce
108 III, 233 | know that it is made by a man who has knelt, both before
109 IV, 242(30) | 27 "Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son,
110 IV, 250 | etc., in order that proud man, who would not submit himself
111 IV, 260 | to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.~
112 IV, 266 | no more. O presumptuous man! The compounds are composed
113 IV, 266 | elements not. O presumptuous man! Here is a fine reflection.
114 IV, 286 | of God, God made Himself man to unite Himself to us.
115 V, 294 | 294. On what shall man found the order of the world
116 V, 294 | Shall it be on justice? Man is ignorant of it.~Certainly,
117 V, 294 | more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to
118 V, 296 | Spaniards to death—only one man is judge, and he is an interested
119 V, 300 | 300. "When a strong man armed keepeth his goods,
120 V, 315 | would not have me honour a man clothed in brocade and followed
121 V, 322 | eighteen years it places a man within the select circle,
122 V, 323 | What is the Ego?~Suppose a man puts himself at a window
123 V, 324 | are joined to it; and a man who has received a blow,
124 V, 325 | are principles natural to man.~It would, therefore, be
125 V, 327 | natural ignorance, which is man's true state. The sciences
126 V, 328 | We have, then, shown that man is foolish, by the estimation
127 V, 329 | effects.—The weakness of man is the reason why so many
128 V, 332 | the pious, in which each man rules at home, not elsewhere.
129 VI, 339 | 339. I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head (
130 VI, 339 | But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would
131 VI, 346 | constitutes the greatness of man.~
132 VI, 347 | 347. Man is but a reed, the most
133 VI, 347 | universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble
134 VI, 350 | consistent Christians, every man can easily be so.~
135 VI, 352 | 352. The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured
136 VI, 354 | 354. Man's nature is not always to
137 VI, 358 | 358. Man is neither angel nor brute,
138 VI, 365 | Thought.—All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought
139 VI, 374 | the custom, but as if each man knew certainly where reason
140 VI, 374 | scepticism, in order to show that man is quite capable of the
141 VI, 376 | friends; for the weakness of man is far more evident in those
142 VI, 388 | is not the language of a man whose right is disputed,
143 VI, 389 | Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total
144 VI, 396 | 396. Two things instruct man about his whole nature;
145 VI, 397 | 397. The greatness of man is great in that he knows
146 VI, 398 | these same miseries prove man's greatness. They are the
147 VI, 399 | house is not miserable. Man only is miserable. Ego vir
148 VI, 399(63) | Lam. 3:1. "I am the man that hath seen." ~
149 VI, 400 | 400. The greatness of man.—We have so great an idea
150 VI, 400 | great an idea of the soul of man that we cannot endure being
151 VI, 402 | 402. The greatness of man even in his lust, to have
152 VI, 403 | indicate the greatness of man, in having extracted so
153 VI, 404 | The greatest baseness of man is the pursuit of glory.
154 VI, 404 | highly in the judgement of man. This is the finest position
155 VI, 404 | most indelible quality of man's heart.~And those who must
156 VI, 404 | them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason
157 VI, 405 | counterbalancing all miseries. Man either hides his miseries,
158 VI, 409 | 409. The greatness of man.—The greatness of man is
159 VI, 409 | of man.—The greatness of man is so evident that it is
160 VI, 409 | animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness, by which we
161 VI, 409 | only one eye? Probably no man ever ventured to mourn at
162 VI, 412 | There is internal war in man between reason and the passions.~
163 VI, 415 | 415. The nature of man may be viewed in two ways:
164 VI, 415 | animum arcendi; and then man is abject and vile. These
165 VI, 416 | wretchedness, some have inferred man's wretchedness all the more
166 VI, 416 | and the wretchedness of man. In a word, man knows that
167 VI, 416 | wretchedness of man. In a word, man knows that he is wretched.
168 VI, 417 | This twofold nature of man is so evident that some
169 VI, 418 | It is dangerous to make man see too clearly his equality
170 VI, 418 | advantageous to show him both. Man must not think that he is
171 VI, 419 | 419. I will not allow man to depend upon himself,
172 VI, 421 | those who choose to praise man, those who choose to blame
173 VI, 423 | vileness and the greatness of man.—Let man now know his value.
174 VI, 423 | the greatness of man.—Let man now know his value. Let
175 VI, 423 | satisfactory.~I would then lead man to the desire of finding
176 VII, 425 | 425. Second part.—That man without faith cannot know
177 VII, 425 | of every action of every man, even of those who hang
178 VII, 425 | but that there was once in man a true happiness of which
179 VII, 425 | adultery, incest. And since man has lost the true good,
180 VII, 425 | only be possessed by one man, and which, when shared,
181 VII, 425 | desire, being natural to man, since it is necessarily
182 VII, 427 | 427. Man does not know in what rank
183 VII, 429 | 429. The vileness of man in submitting himself to
184 VII, 430 | and the wretchedness of man are so evident that the
185 VII, 430 | us both that there is in man some great source of greatness
186 VII, 430 | contradictions.~In order to make man happy, it must prove to
187 VII, 430 | remedy for our ills? Is man's pride cured by placing
188 VII, 430 | I formed you. I created man holy, innocent, perfect.
189 VII, 430 | and my wonders. The eye of man saw then the majesty of
190 VII, 430 | them his enemies; so that man is now become like the brutes
191 VII, 431 | religion has recognised that man is the most excellent creature.
192 VII, 431 | which are equally natural to man.~"Lift your eyes to God,"
193 VII, 431 | you are."~What, then, will man become? Will he be equal
194 VII, 431 | not see from all this that man has gone astray, that he
195 VII, 433 | understood the whole nature of man.—That a religion may be
196 VII, 434 | apart from faith, whether man was created by a good God,
197 VII, 434 | exception.~What, then, shall man do in this state? Shall
198 VII, 434 | What a chimera, then, is man! What a novelty! What a
199 VII, 434 | of them.~Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are
200 VII, 434 | foolish nature; learn that man infinitely transcends man,
201 VII, 434 | man infinitely transcends man, and learn from your Master
202 VII, 434 | Hear God.~For in fact, if man had never been corrupt,
203 VII, 434 | happiness with assurance; and if man had always been corrupt,
204 VII, 434 | that the sin of the first man has rendered guilty those
205 VII, 434 | turns in this abyss, so that man is more inconceivable without
206 VII, 434 | mystery is inconceivable to man.~Whence it seems that God,
207 VII, 434 | equally certain: the one, that man, in the state of creation,
208 VII, 434 | Whence it clearly seems that man by grace is made like unto
209 VII, 435 | they knew the excellence of man, they were ignorant of his
210 VII, 438 | 438. If man is not made for God, why
211 VII, 438 | he only happy in God? If man is made for God, why is
212 VII, 439 | 439. Nature corrupted.—Man does not act by reason,
213 VII, 440 | should come, in order that man should no longer dwell within
214 VII, 441 | everywhere, both within man and without him, to a lost
215 VII, 442 | 442. Man's true nature, his true
216 VII, 443 | baseness we discover in man. Ordinary men—those who
217 VII, 445 | this, what can we say that man is? His whole state depends
218 VII, 446 | 21: "The imagination of man's heart is evil from his
219 VII, 446 | evil leaven is placed in man from the time that he is
220 VII, 446 | impressed in the heart of man.~Midrasch Tillim says the
221 VII, 446 | deliver the good nature of man from the evil.~This malignity
222 VII, 446 | renewed every day against man, as it is written, Psalm
223 VII, 446 | malignity tries the heart of man in this life and will accuse
224 VII, 446 | the malignity natural to man has said that to the wicked.~
225 VII, 446 | king is the malignity of man. It is called king because
226 VII, 446 | foolish because it leads man in the way of perdition,
227 VII, 446 | has been found a poor wise man who has delivered it—that
228 VII, 446 | leaven, which accompanies man till death and will not
229 VII, 450 | deliverance, what can we say of a man...?~What then, can we have
230 VII, 450 | knows so well the defects of man, and desire for the truth
231 VII, 453 | reality this vile root of man, this figmentum malum, is
232 VII, 460 | pride specially. Not that a man cannot boast of wealth or
233 VII, 460 | pride; for in granting to a man that he is learned, it is
234 VII, 460 | it cannot be granted to a man that he has made himself
235 VII, 477 | in the particular body of man. The will is therefore depraved.~
236 VII, 486 | 486. The dignity of man in his innocence consisted
237 VII, 489 | It teaches us that by one man all was lost, and the bond
238 VII, 489 | and us, and that by one man the bond is renewed.~We
239 VII, 499 | as what pleases God and man. For those states, which
240 VII, 499 | states, which please God and man, have one property which
241 VII, 502 | servants. So the righteous man takes for himself nothing
242 VII, 504 | 504. The just man acts by faith in the least
243 VII, 508 | indeed needed to turn a man into a saint; and he who
244 VII, 508 | not know what a saint or a man is.~
245 VII, 509 | A fine thing to cry to a man who does not know himself,
246 VII, 509 | fine thing to say so to a man who does know himself!~
247 VII, 510 | 510. Man is not worthy of God, but
248 VII, 510 | unite Himself to wretched man; but it is not unworthy
249 VII, 511 | 511. If we would say that man is too insignificant to
250 VII, 512 | the union of the Word to man. Because my body without
251 VII, 512 | would not make the body of a man; therefore my soul united
252 VII, 514 | our power.~The righteous man should then hope no more
253 VII, 514 | conclude then that, since man is now unrighteous since
254 VII, 519(87) | never in bondage to any man.'" ~
255 VII, 524 | doctrine more appropriate to man than this, which teaches
256 VII, 525 | greatness, and that is not man's state.~They inspired feelings
257 VII, 525 | littleness, and that is not man's state.~There must be feelings
258 VII, 526 | presumption. The Incarnation shows man the greatness of his misery
259 VII, 527 | knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The
260 VII, 527 | pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of
261 VII, 530 | together would make one good man, and that each was wanting
262 VII, 536 | 536. Man is so made that by continually
263 VII, 536 | himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with
264 VII, 537 | Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile,
265 VII, 542 | Christian religion alone makes man altogether lovable and happy.
266 VII, 546 | 546. Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery;
267 VII, 546 | misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery;
268 VII, 550 | them in me, and who, of a man full of weakness, of miseries,
269 VII, 550 | of ambition, has made a man free from all these evils
270 VIII, 556 | both of the whole nature of man in particular and of the
271 VIII, 556 | is equally dangerous for man to know God without knowing
272 VIII, 556 | it is alike necessary to man to know these two points,
273 VIII, 556 | useless and barren. Though a man should be convinced that
274 VIII, 556 | world existed to instruct man of God, His divinity would
275 VIII, 557 | that everything teaches man his condition, but he must
276 VIII, 562 | either the wretchedness of man, or the mercy of God; either
277 VIII, 562 | either the weakness of man without God, or the strength
278 VIII, 562 | God, or the strength of man with God.~
279 VIII, 578 | premiss.—Moses was a clever man. If, then, he ruled himself
280 VIII, 586 | there were no obscurity, man would not be sensible of
281 VIII, 586 | if there were no light, man would not hope for a remedy.
282 VIII, 586 | is equally dangerous to man to know God without knowing
283 IX, 597 | Saint Matthew was an honest man. Therefore Mahomet was a
284 IX, 600 | 600. Any man can do what Mahomet has
285 IX, 600 | he was not foretold. No man can do what Christ has done.~
286 IX, 601 | has he that every other man has not who chooses to call
287 IX, 606 | our own has taught that man is born in sin. No sea of
288 IX, 612 | consists in believing that man has fallen from a state
289 IX, 617 | from their ancestors that man has fallen from communion
290 IX, 618 | people, sprung from a single man, who worship one God and
291 IX, 619 | has all sprung from one man alone, and, being thus all
292 X, 642(116) | may know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive
293 X, 643 | For, at the creation of man, Adam was the witness, and
294 X, 653 | Jesus. "I know not," as a man, or as an ambassador (Mark
295 X, 660 | to indicate that in each man, as in the entire world,
296 X, 661 | abideth for ever, and this man says that he shall die."
297 X, 677 | this that the enemies of man are his passions; that the
298 X, 677 | Christ would be both God and man.~
299 X, 683 | Ezekiel, chap. 20., Says that man will not live by the commandments
300 X, 686 | the same intention which a man would have, who, pleased
301 X, 686 | the same intention as a man has towards him to whom
302 X, 691 | some that see clearly that man has no other enemy than
303 X, 691 | believe that the good of man is in the flesh, and evil
304 XI, 692 | and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole
305 XI, 692 | whole silent universe and man without light, left to himself
306 XI, 692 | become terrified, like a man who should be carried in
307 XI, 709 | 710. Prophecies.—If one man alone had made a book of
308 XI, 712 | taught by the precept of man. Therefore, behold, I will
309 XI, 712 | revealed.~"Blessed is the man that doeth this, that keepeth
310 XI, 721 | manner, 'Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.'
311 XI, 725 | saith the Lord to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the
312 XI, 725 | away?~"For I came, and no man received me; I called and
313 XI, 731 | shall teach no more every man his neighbour, saying, Here
314 XI, 732 | before Him nor after Him, any man who has taught anything
315 XII, 736 | that, since the memory of man has lasted, it was constantly
316 XII, 736 | come; that it is not one man who said it, but innumerable
317 XII, 753(149) | The man who exists makes you God." ~
318 XII, 755 | have but reverence for a man who foretells plainly things
319 XII, 762 | have shown that He was man.~
320 XII, 763 | showing that Jesus Christ was man, against those who denied
321 XII, 764 | two advents, two states of man's nature.~
322 XII, 765 | which visibly reigns in man; to give laws to this people,
323 XII, 780 | for He has offered, like a man who has ransomed all those
324 XII, 781 | victory over death. "What is a man advantaged if he gain the
325 XII, 791 | 792. What man ever had more renown? The
326 XII, 791 | their centre.~And yet what man enjoys this renown less?
327 XII, 791 | in this renown? Never had man so much renown; never had
328 XII, 791 | so much renown; never had man more ignominy. All that
329 XII, 798 | royalty, etc.; but the rich man rightly speaks of wealth,
330 XII, 800 | the powers. The heart of man is strangely inclined to
331 XII, 801 | not possible to mistake a man raised from the dead...~
332 XIII, 805 | necessary to convince the entire man, in body and soul.~
333 XIII, 807(178)| teacher come from God; for no man can do these miracles that
334 XIII, 816 | in the same way as did a man boast of preventing death,
335 XIII, 820 | into error is to place a man under the necessity of inferring
336 XIII, 828 | Doth our law judge any man before it hear him, and
337 XIII, 828 | him, and specially such a man who works such miracles"?~
338 XIII, 833(189)| 16. "This man is not of God, because he
339 XIII, 833(189)| Others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such
340 XIII, 833(190)| He is a prophet. If this man were not of God, he could
341 XIII, 838(191)| qui faciat. "There is no man which shall do a miracle
342 XIII, 840 | overwhelms them with favours. A man would need to have lost
343 XIII, 841(196)| John 3:2. "No man can do these miracles that
344 XIII, 842 | Jesus Christ cured the man born blind and performed
345 XIII, 842 | led into error.~For, as a man, who announces to us the
346 XIII, 842 | ungodly doubt him; so when a man, as a token of the communion
347 XIII, 842 | duty of God to men, that a man, hiding his evil teaching,
348 XIII, 848 | enough. If they say that a man must not be killed for an
349 XIII, 850 | 851. The history of the man born blind.~What says Saint
350 XIII, 850 | Eucharist raised a dead man, it would be necessary for
351 XIII, 850(214)| the works which none other man did." ~
352 XIV, 861 | Jesus Christ is God and man. The Arians, unable to reconcile
353 XIV, 861 | incompatible, say that He is man; in this they are Catholics.
354 XIV, 867 | this great saint was a man called Athanasius; and Saint
355 XIV, 867 | was a nun. "Elias was a man subject to like passions
356 XIV, 867 | Saint Athanasius was a man called Athanasius, accused
357 XIV, 869 | the king have pardoned a man, it must be ratified; but
358 XIV, 875 | infallibility existed in one man. But it appears so natural
359 XIV, 906 | corrupt in the nature of man may contribute to his conduct.~
360 XIV, 920 | most different foundation.~Man never had so good a cause
361 XIV, 920(233) | Prov. 12:8. "A man shall be commended according
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