False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without kn…

- Joseph De Maistre

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

- Joseph De Maistre

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

- Joseph De Maistre

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

- Joseph De Maistre

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

- Joseph De Maistre

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…

- Joseph De Maistre

Every country has the government it deserves.

- Joseph De Maistre

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack…

- Joseph De Maistre

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom:…

- Joseph De Maistre