God Considers Not The Action,

It Is By Doubting That We Come To Investigate, And By Investigating That We Recognize The Truth.

In Fact We Say That An Intention Is Good, That Is, Right In Itself, But That An Action Does Not Bear Any Good In Itself But Proceeds From A Good Intention. Whence When The Same Thing Is Done By The Same Man At Different Times, By The Diversity Of His Intention, However, His Action Is Now Said To Be Good, Now Bad.

The Key To Wisdom Is This - Constant And Frequent Questioning, For By Doubting We Are Led To Question And By Questioning We Arrive At The Truth.

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.

Under The Pretext Of Study We Spent Our Hours In The Happiness Of Love, And Learning Held Out To Us The Secret Opportunities That Our Passion Craved. Our Speech Was More Of Love Than Of The Books Which Lay Open Before Us; Our Kisses Far Outnumbered Our Reasoned Words.