Letter 1217
Personally, I find wise the things that you you claim are absurd. If everything in life was obvious, where would be the use of our intelligence? There would be no chance to seek things out. If nothing were unknown, then we would be completely lost: there would be nothing to discover. In reality from what is obvious we reason in a certain way to that which is not. And if what is not obvious still escapes us, we then gain thereby in lowering our self-satisfaction. Simple pastoral advice is also part of the letters:
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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