Human happiness consists in living according to reason.

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Pensées chrétiennes et morales (1704)

[L]a felicité de l'homme consiste a vivre selon la raison.

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Source: Pensées chrétiennes et morales (1704), in Œuvres complètes de Bossuet, Vol. X, ed. F. Lachat (Paris: Louis Vivès, 1863), Ch. XXXIII, p. 626
Work: Pensées chrétiennes et morales, 1704
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