Avons-nous condamné ses sentimens? Nous sommes-nous opposés à ses maximes? Et avons-nous fait tous nos efforts pour abolir ses lois et renverser ses … - Louis Tronson

Let us now examine how we have employed our time, and let us see whether we have not, in point of fact, thrown away the larger portion of that which has been already granted to us. ... Time is lost when it is ill-employed; as when it is spent in the society of evil-disposed or frivolous persons, or in gossiping and tale-bearing, in oppressing the poor, or in any way infringing the laws of God and of His Church.

Have we fled the company of worldly persons, whom the saints, especially the Ecclesiastics, advise us to avoid like the plague, whom one should see only by necessity, and from whom we should separate ourselves as vigilantly as we can?

En avons-nous parlé avec indignation, éloignement et mépris; et avons-nous fait connaître qu'il n'était plein que de corruption, de vanité et de mensonge?