Marquis de Custine Quotes

• I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.

  Marqués de Custine

  Country, Believe, Russia

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• En Rusia, cualquiera que sea la apariencia de las cosas, la violencia y el gobierno arbitrario están en el fondo de todas ellas. La tiranía calmada por la influencia del terror es la única clase de felicidad que este gobierno es capaz de proporcionar a su pueblo.

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  Russia, Government, People

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• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!

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  Mentira, Corazón, Hombres

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• In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.

  Marqués de Custine

  Taken, Believe, Administration

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• Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

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  Reason, Nations

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• The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

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  Math, Logic, Complicated

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• What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

  Marqués de Custine

  Complaining, Painful, Annoyance

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• Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

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  Lying, Grace, Doe

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