23 Quotations by Joseph De Maistre
- 1. A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
- 2. All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
- 3. Every country has the government it deserves.
- 4. Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degrada ...
- 5. False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by ...
- 6. I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man: i ...
- 7. I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to ...
- 8. If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
- 9. In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury w ...
- 10. In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, sco ...
- 11. It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
- 12. Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
- 13. Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he ha ...
- 14. Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the m ...
- 15. Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
- 16. The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living ...
- 17. There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
- 18. To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
- 19. War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences ...
- 20. We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without ensl ...
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