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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
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Orators are the passions of great assemblies.
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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.
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God is the highest instance of our incapacity: The universe, space itself, is not so inaccessible.
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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.
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Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and burdens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts.
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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.
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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.
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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
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A fool may have his coat embroidered, but it will always be a fool's coat.
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, and in trembling for the future.
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Born:
June 26, 1753
Died:
April 11, 1801
(aged 47)
Bio:
Antoine de Rivarol was a Royalist French writer during the Revolutionary era. He was briefly married to the translator Louisa Henrietta de Rivarol.
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