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.
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. - Joseph De Maistre
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
- 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
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…
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. - Joseph De Maistre
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language. - Joseph De Maistre
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men. - Joseph De Maistre
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
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
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…
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
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…
Every country has the government it deserves. - Joseph De Maistre
Every country has the government it deserves.
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
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:…
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