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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Joseph de Maistre

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Joseph de Maistre
Age: 67 †
Born: 1753
Born: April 1
Died: 1821
Died: February 26
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Joseph Marie de Maistre
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What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.
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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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Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature: and man having been created free, he is led freely.
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It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
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There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
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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, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.
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