When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

"Rest" answered Arnauld "when you have eternity to rest in!" In 1683 Nicole made a rather ambiguous peace with the authorities and was allowed to come back to Paris. His books are distinguiPierre Nicoled by exactly opposite qualities; they are neat and orderly to excess. Hence they were exceedingly popular with Mme de Sevigné and readers of her class.

In the course of these he observed that poets and dramatists were no better than "public poisoners. No other Jansenist writer not even Pascal was so successful in putting the position of Port Royal before the world. Silvestre de Saci (Paris 1857).