The interior was between reason and the passions meant that those who wanted peace divided into two sects. Some wanted to renounce the passions and become gods, the others wanted to renounce reason and become brute beasts. . . But neither group succeeded, and reason is still there accusing the baseness and injustice of the passions and disturbing the peace of those who give way to them, and the passions are still alive in those who want to reject them.
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The stoics say: “Go back into yourselves. There you will find peace.” And it is not true.
Others say: “Go out, look for happiness in some distraction.” And that is not true. Illness is the result.
Happiness is neither outside us nor within us. It is in God, and both outside us and within us.
-blaise pascal
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