Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
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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.Joseph de Maistre
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
Joseph de Maistre
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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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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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
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