Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
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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.
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There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
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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
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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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
Joseph de Maistre
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