Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.