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disposition? For is it not true that we hate truth and those who
tell it us, and that we like them to be deceived in our favour, and prefer
to be esteemed by them as being other than what we are in fact? One proof of
this makes me shudder. The Catholic religion does not bind us to confess our
sins indiscriminately to everybody; it allows them to remain hidden from all
other men save one, to whom she bids us reveal the innermost recesses of our
heart and show ourselves as we are. There is only this one man in the world
whom she orders us to undeceive, and she binds him to an inviolable secrecy,
which makes this knowledge to him as if it were not. Can we imagine anything
more charitable and pleasant? And yet the corruption of man is such that he
finds even this law harsh; and it is one of the main reasons which has
caused a great part of Europe to rebel against the Church.

How unjust and unreasonable is the heart of man, which feels it disagreeable
to be obliged to do in regard to one man what in some measure it were right
to do to all men! For is it right that we should deceive men?

There are different degrees in this aversion to truth; but all may perhaps
be said to have it in some degree, because it is inseparable from self-love.
It is this false delicacy which makes those who are under the necessity of
reproving others ch