AE 1136 [4, 10]
Man's understanding and will
must not be compelled by another in the least,
since all compulsion by another takes away freedom,
but man himself should compel himself,
for to compel oneself is to act from freedom.
Man from his own prudence
has led himself to eminence and opulence,
when these lead him astray;
for by the Divine providence
man is led only to such things as do not lead astray
and as are serviceable to eternal life;
for all things of the Divine providence with man
look to what is eternal,
since the life which is God,
from which man is man,
is eternal life.
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