“I closed the book, angry with myself that I should still be admiring earthly things, when even the pagan philosophers had long taught that nothing is wonderful but the soul, which, when great itself, finds nothing great outside itself.”
Original: Clausi librum iratus mihi quod terrestria adhuc mirarer, qui vel a philosophis ethnicis didicissem pridem nihil praeter animum esse mirabile, cui magno nihil magnum est extra se. — After opening Augustine on the summit, he turns from landscape to conscience. · Letter on the ascent of Mont Ventoux, Familiares IV, 1 (Latin)
