Crime Quote by Joseph de Maistre

“All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.” quote by Joseph de Maistre — Download Open image

“All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.”

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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature…

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Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

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It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

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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…

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Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs…

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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.…

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A child is an angel dependent on man

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“Thus is worked out, from maggots up to man, the universal law of the violent destruction of living beings. The whole earth, continually steeped…

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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…

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The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm,…

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Every time that a man who is not an absolute fool presents you with a question he considers very problematic after giving it careful…

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