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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We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.Joseph de Maistre
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
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Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
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