Antoine de Rivarol Quotes

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Antoine de Rivarol
Philosophy, being the product of lengthy meditation and an entire life, ought not and cannot be presented to the people who are always at the beginning of life.

Antoine de Rivarol
Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

Antoine de Rivarol
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.

Antoine de Rivarol
Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

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Memory is always at the service of the heart.

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Imagination is a memory that is not at our beck and call: its apparitions, its brilliant decorations and its eclipses are equally independent of us.

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The French is of all languages the only one to have integrity attached to its genius.

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The man who speaks is the man who thinks aloud.

Antoine de Rivarol
History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Antoine de Rivarol
Orators are the passions of great assemblies.

Antoine de Rivarol
A little philosophy drives away religion, but much brings it back again.

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God explains the world, and the world proves God.

Antoine de Rivarol
God is the highest instance of our incapacity: The universe, space itself, is not so inaccessible.

Antoine de Rivarol
Political science resembles the sphinx of the fable: it devours all those who cannot resolve its enigmas.

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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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Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Antoine de Rivarol
Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and burdens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts.

Antoine de Rivarol
Style is nothing, but nothing is without its style.

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A critic enjoys a tremendous advantage if he has done nothing himself; but it is one that should not be abused.

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A witticism is a minor work that does not merit a second edition.

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Envy which talks and cries out is always maladroit; it is the envy which keeps silent that one ought to fear.

Antoine de Rivarol
Heaven has refused genius to woman, in order to concentrate all the fire in her heart.

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War is the tribunal of nations: victories and defeats are its decrees.

Antoine de Rivarol
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Antoine de Rivarol