All Is To Be Doubted.

Illusory Joy Is Often Worth More Than Genuine Sorrow.

Be That As It May, There Is Fixed In My Mind A Certain Opinion Of Long Standing, Namely That There Exists A God Who Is Able To Do Anything And By Whom I, Such As I Am, Have Been Created. How Do I Know That He Did Not Bring It About That There Is No Earth At All, No Heavens, No Extended Thing, No Shape, No Size, No Place, And Yet Bringing It About That All These Things Appear To Me To Exist Precisely As They Do Now?

I Desire To Live In Peace And To Continue The Life I Have Begun Under The Motto 'to Live Well You Must Live Unseen

But Possibly I Am Something More Than I Suppose Myself To Be.

I Was Convinced That Our Beliefs Are Based Much More On Custom And Example Than On Any Certain Knowledge.