Best Quotes by Joseph de Maistre (Top 10)
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Every country has the government it deserves.
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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
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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
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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
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
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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.
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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
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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.
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
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Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.
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More Joseph de Maistre Quotes
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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
Joseph de Maistre
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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
Joseph de Maistre