Adversity Quote by Joseph de Maistre

“It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.” quote by Joseph de Maistre — Download Open image

“It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.”

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

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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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“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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