The Fifth Chapter

     WHEN a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man

never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace. An unmortified

man is quickly tempted and overcome in small, trifling evils; his spirit is weak, in a measure carnal

and inclined to sensual things; he can hardly abstain from earthly desires. Hence it makes him sad

to forego them; he is quick to anger if reproved. Yet if he satisfies his desires, remorse of conscience

overwhelms him because he followed his passions and they did not lead to the peace he sought.

     True peace of heart, then, is found in resisting passions, not in satisfying them. There is no

peace in the carnal man, in the man given to vain attractions, but there is peace in the fervent and

spiritual man.

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