Joseph De Maistre
10 quotations
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Every country has the government it deserves.
Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.