Maistre Quotes
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
— Joseph De Maistre
To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
— Joseph De Maistre
What a miserable world!trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love. — Joseph De Maistre
Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.
— Xavier De Maistre
When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.
— Xavier De Maistre
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
— Joseph De Maistre
Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
— Joseph De Maistre
Nothing great has great beginnings.
— Joseph De Maistre
I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
— Joseph De Maistre
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
— Joseph De Maistre
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
— Joseph De Maistre
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
— Joseph De Maistre
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
— Joseph De Maistre
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
— Joseph De Maistre
There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
— Joseph De Maistre
It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.
— Joseph De Maistre
Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.
— Joseph De Maistre
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.
— Joseph De Maistre
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
— Joseph De Maistre
Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.
— Joseph De Maistre
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
— Joseph De Maistre
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
— Joseph De Maistre
Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.
— Joseph De Maistre
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
— Joseph De Maistre
Every country has the government it deserves.
— Joseph De Maistre
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
— Joseph De Maistre
Every nation has the government it deserves
— Joseph De Maistre
Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.
— Joseph De Maistre
In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.
— Joseph De Maistre
