The Manual of Xefolius

I said to Him: "O my God! Where shall I find the truth that it is vital for me to know?" And it was answered to me:

"The Eternal One original: L'Éternel. A term for God frequently used in French philosophical and mystical texts of the 18th century to emphasize His timelessness. has impressed laws upon all His works; none reaches its destiny except by the virtue of these laws. Study your heart, because it is in your heart that He has impressed the laws of the nature of your destined being—laws by the virtue of which you must arrive at happiness and work out your salvation. For, as it is not the most learned, but the best learned The author contrasts the quantity of knowledge (plus savant) with the quality and moral application of wisdom (mieux savant). who is the most happy, all sciences are in vain for those who do not possess the science of man; and whoever has the science of man can do without all others. This science requires no study on the part of those who live by feeling, within the laws of their destined nature; but it requires a profound and well-directed study from those who have strayed from them.
Begin, then, by considering what nature of happiness belongs to those who awe you with their rank or their intellect; see all that can disturb this happiness, seek out what its needs are, and finally weigh what its consistency might be."