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" A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. "
Constitution
Nations
Made
" All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. "
Justice
Punishment
Pain
" Every country has the government it deserves. "
Every
Deserves
Government
" 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. "
People
Money
Doing
" Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion. "
Movement
Acts
True
" 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. "
Mind
Life
Religion
" 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. "
Make
Man
Creep
" If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. "
Earth
Would
Physical
" 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. "
Poor
Results
Man
" It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. "
Them
Difficulties
Create
" Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. "
Free
Wicked
Too
" Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction. "
God
Nature
Man
" Man, in spite of his fatal degradation, bears always the evident marks of his divine origin, in that every universal belief is always more or less true. "
True
Belief
Divine
" Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. "
Always
Complain
He
" 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. "
Man
Day
Things
" 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. "
Truth
Always
Over
" 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. "
Book
Man
God
" 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. "
Beneath
Desire
Desires
" There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. "
Without
Art
Ignoring
" 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. "
Action
Throne
Guidance
" 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. "
Evil
Place
Philosophy
" We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end, which appropriates what is useful to it and rejects that which would harm it. "
Harm
End
Plant
" Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. "
Found
Altar
Wherever
" Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. "
Without
God
Moving
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