There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
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There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.Joseph de Maistre
It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.
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
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Joseph de Maistre
To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
Joseph De Maistre
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
Joseph De Maistre
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