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«Every country has the government it deserves.»
«It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.»
Author: Joseph Marie de Maistre
(Diplomat, Philosopher, Politician, Writer)
| Keywords:
curious, idiosyncrasies, idiosyncrasy, resolving, The Pleasure
«All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.»
«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.»
Author: Joseph Marie de Maistre
(Diplomat, Philosopher, Politician, Writer)
| Keywords:
circulate, circulated, circulates, circulating, thereafter
«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.»
Author: Joseph Marie de Maistre
(Diplomat, Philosopher, Politician, Writer)
| Keywords:
modern philosophy, polluted, taint, Taints
«Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.»
«There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.»
Author: Joseph Marie de Maistre
(Diplomat, Philosopher, Politician, Writer)
| Keywords:
ignoring, objections
«The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.»
«If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.»
«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.»
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