Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths. Georges Bernanos
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The Devil is said to be the same in every age, the same in every culture, but still he has never changed. He is always the same. And it is because of this that he will never be able to manage the world. Without change, there can be no progress.

This is why Satan can never manage the world, for he does not change with the times. He is a force of nature that cannot compromise or adapt to different circumstances. A force that cannot be reasoned with or manipulated into doing what you need it to do.

In fact, he is simply too hard a master.

Source: The Diary Of A Country Priest

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