All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
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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
To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
Joseph De Maistre
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
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
Joseph de Maistre
Every country has the government it deserves.
Joseph de Maistre
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