A woman can only be superior as a woman; as soon as she wants to emulate man, she is nothing but an ape.
Joseph de Maistre
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
01DEC2023 – Quote of the Day
The vices are very justly man’s executioners.
Joseph de Maistre
30NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
Unhappily, history proves that war is, in a certain sense, the habitual state of mankind, which is to say that human blood must flow without interruption somewhere or other on the globe, and that for every nation, peace is only a respite.
Joseph de Maistre
29NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
The arts, in general, need a king; they only flourish under the influence of sceptres.
Joseph de Maistre
28NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
Nothing great has great beginnings.
Joseph de Maistre
27NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
This makes me think that the French Revolution is a great epoch and that its consequences, in all kinds of ways, will be felt far beyond the time of its explosion and the limits of its birthplace.
Joseph de Maistre
26NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
All grandeur, all power, all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.
Joseph de Maistre
25NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.
Every nation gets the government it deserves.
Joseph de Maistre
24NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.
Henry Sumner Maine
23NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
Nobody is at liberty to attack several property and to say at the same time that he values civilisation. The history of the two cannot be disentangled. Civilisation is nothing more than a name for the old order of the Aryan world, dissolved but perpetually re-constituting itself under a vast variety of solvent influences, of which infinitely the most powerful have been those which have, slowly, and in some parts of the world much less perfectly than others, substituted several property for collective ownership.
Henry Sumner Maine
Note: several property refers to what we call private property.