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I know some who, in order not to fall into this self-love, have been
perfectly unjust out of opposition. The sure way of losing a just cause has
been to get it recommended to these men by their near relatives.
Justice and truth are two such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to
touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or
lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
Man is so happily formed that he has no... good of the true, and several
excellent of the false. Let us now see how much... But the most powerful
cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason.
83. We must thus begin the chapter on the deceptive powers. Man is only a
subject full of error, natural and ineffaceable, without grace. Nothing
shows him the truth. Everything deceives him. These two sources of truth,
reason and the senses, besides being both wanting in sincerity, deceive each
other in turn. The senses mislead the Reason with false appearances, and
receive from Reason in their turn
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