I am a perfect stranger to France, which I have never seen, and I expect nothing from her king, whom I shall never know.
~ Joseph de Maistre

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Either every imaginable institution is founded on a religious concept or it is only a passing phenomenon. Institutions are strong and durable to the degree that they are, so to speak, deified.
~ Joseph de Maistre

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Men gather the clouds, and then they complain of the tempests that follow.
~ Joseph de Maistre

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Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.
~ Joseph de Maistre

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