Antoine Rivarol quotes
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“Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.”
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“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.”
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“It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.”
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“The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.”
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“Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.”
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“Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.”
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“There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.”
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“To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.”
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“Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.”
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“Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.”
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“Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.”
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“Women read each other at a single glance.”
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“Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.”
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“It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.”
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“The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.”
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“Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.”
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“To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.”
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“Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.”
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“History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.”
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“The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.”
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“It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.”
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“Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.”
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“Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.”
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“Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.”
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“There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.”
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“The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.”
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“Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.”
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“The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.”
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“If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.”
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“That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.”
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“The world is governed by love,--self-love.”
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“Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.”
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“True felicity consists of its own consciousness.”
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“The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.”
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“Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.”
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“Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.”
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“The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.”
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“A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.”
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“Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.”
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“Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.”
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“The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.”
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“It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.”
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“Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.”
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“Vices are often habits rather than passions.”
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“The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.”
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“It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.”
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“The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.”
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“Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.”
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“In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.”
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“Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.”
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“Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.”
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“There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.”
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“It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.”
-- Antoine Rivarol
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