“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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Temptation
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“War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular…. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it…. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.”
Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.”
Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”
Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“It is one of man’s curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.”
Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Problems
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“There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.”
Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Philosophy
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“To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.”
Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Patience
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“All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.”
Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Pain
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“Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.”
Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Necessity
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“Every country has the government it deserves.”
Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Government
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“Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.”
Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Freedom
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“If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.”
Joseph De Maistre
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Evil
