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  • Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.

    'La Nouvelle Hèloise' (1761, ed. M. Launay, 1967) pt. 2, letter 11