Divide Each Difficulty Into As Many Parts

Conquer Yourself Rather Than The World.

In Order To Improve The Mind, We Ought Less To Learn, Than To Contemplate.

We Call Infinite That Thing Whose Limits We Have Not Perceived, And So By That Word We Do Not Signify What We Understand About A Thing, But Rather What We Do Not Understand.

Divide Each Difficulty At Hand Into As Many Pieces As Possible And As Could Be Required To Better Solve Them.

Before Examining This More Carefully And Investigating Its Consequences, I Want To Dwell For A Moment In The Contemplation Of God, To Ponder His Attributes In Me, To See, Admire, And Adore The Beauty Of His Boundless Light, Insofar As My Clouded Insight Allows. Believing That The Supreme Happiness Of The Other Life Consists Wholly Of The Contemplation Of Divine Greatness, I Now Find That Through Less Perfect Contemplation Of The Same Sort I Can Gain The Greatest Joy Available In This Life.