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[Nick]

envy, and which no one can lose against his
will. And their reason is that this desire, being natural to man, since it
is necessarily in all, and that it is impossible not to have it, they infer
from it...

426. True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true
good being lost, everything becomes its own true good.

427. Man does not know in what rank to place himself. He has plainly gone
astray and fallen from his true place without being able to find it again.
He seeks it anxiously and unsuccessfully everywhere in impenetrable
darkness.

428. If it is a sign of weakness to prove God by nature, do not despise
Scripture; if it is a sign of strength to have known these contradictions,
esteem Scripture.

429. The vileness of man in submitting himself to the brutes and in even
worshipping them. e

430. For Port-Royal. The beginning, after having explained the
incomprehensibility.--The greatness and the wretchedness of man are so
evident that the true religion must necessarily teach us both that there is
in man some great source of greatness and a great source of wretchedness. It
must then give us a reason for these astonishing contradictions.

In order to make man happy, it must prove to him that there is a God; that
we ought to love Him; that our true happiness is to be in Him, and our sole
evil to be separated from Him; it must recognise that we are full of
darkness which hinders us from knowing and loving Him; and that thus, as our
duties compel us to love God, and our lusts turn us away from Him, we are
full of unrighteousness. It must give us an explanation of our opposition to
God and to our own good. It must teach us the remedies for these infirmities
and