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Joseph de Maistre

"Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free."

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"Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"Let no such man be trusted."

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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."

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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

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"Every country has the government it deserves."
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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."
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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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"A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none."
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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."
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"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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"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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"If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil."
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"Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure."
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