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Joseph de Maistre Quotes
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Type: Diplomat Quotes Category: French Diplomat Quotes Date of Birth: April 1, 1753 Date of Death: February 26, 1821 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Joseph de Maistre Related Authors: Dag Hammarskjold Hans Blix Jeane Kirkpatrick Alva Myrdal Caleb Cushing Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Lawrence Eagleburger Harry Hopkins |
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
Joseph de Maistre All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. Joseph De Maistre Every country has the government it deserves. Joseph de Maistre False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. Joseph De Maistre I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. Joseph de Maistre If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. Joseph de Maistre In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. Joseph de Maistre It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. Joseph De Maistre Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. Joseph de Maistre Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. Joseph de Maistre Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. Joseph de Maistre There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode. Joseph De Maistre There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. Joseph De Maistre We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. Joseph de Maistre We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. Joseph de Maistre Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. Joseph De Maistre |
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