Man may well have covered over and, so to speak, encrusted the truth with the errors he has loaded onto it, but these errors are local, and universal truth will always show itself.
From Joseph de Maistre
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment... is inflicted by love as much as by justice.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.
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