Chapter V.
That disturbances are caused in us not by the faults of
other people, but by our own.
Whence
it is clearly proved
that the pains of disturbances are not always caused in us by other
people’s faults, but rather by our own, as we have stored up in
ourselves the causes of offence, and the seeds of faults, which, as
soon as a shower of temptation waters our soul, at once burst forth
into shoots and fruits.