Quotes by Marquis Custine

• What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
• Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
• The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.
• The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.