It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
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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.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.
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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
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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.
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Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Joseph de Maistre
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
Joseph de Maistre
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