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Every country has the government it deserves.

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

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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 to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

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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 of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

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There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

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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.

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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.

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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

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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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There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Diplomat

Born: April 1st, 1753

Died: February 26th, 1821

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