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Inspirational Quotes by Joseph de Maistre
- Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
- Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
- Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
- Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.
- Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
- 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.
- There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
- A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
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