All men seek happiness. This is without exception... some seek good in authority, others in scientific research, other in pleasure... And yet, after such great number of year, no one without faith has reached the point to which all continually look. All complain, princes and subjects , noblemen and commoners, old and young, strong and weak... A trial so long, so continuous, and so uniform, should certainly convince us of our inability to reach the good by our own effort. But example teaches us little.
What is it then, that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remains to him only the mark and the empty trace, which in vain he tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present? But these all are inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by infinite and immutable object that is to say, only by God himself.
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