Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. - Blaise Pascal

It is not your strength and your natural power that subjects all these people to you. Do not pretend then to rule them by force or to treat them with harshness. Satisfy their reasonable desires; alleviate their necessities; let your pleasure consist in being beneficent; advance them as much as you can, and you will act like the true king of desire.

Those who have known God without knowing their own wretchedness have not glorified him but themselves.

I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.