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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
— Antoine Rivarol
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
— Antoine Rivarol
Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.
— Antoine Rivarol
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
— Antoine Rivarol
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
— Antoine Rivarol
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
— Antoine Rivarol
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
— Antoine Rivarol
The world is governed by love,self-love. — Antoine Rivarol
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
— Antoine Rivarol
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
— Antoine Rivarol
The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.
— Antoine Rivarol
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
— Antoine Rivarol
There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.
— Antoine Rivarol
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
— Antoine Rivarol
Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.
— Antoine Rivarol
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
— Antoine Rivarol
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
— Antoine Rivarol
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
— Antoine Rivarol
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
— Antoine Rivarol
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
— Antoine Rivarol
History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
— Antoine Rivarol
It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.
— Antoine Rivarol
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
— Antoine Rivarol
What isn't clear, isn't French.
— Antoine De Rivarol
Women read each other at a single glance.
— Antoine Rivarol
Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.
— Antoine Rivarol
Mutability is written upon all things.
— Antoine Rivarol
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.
— Antoine Rivarol
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
— Antoine Rivarol
Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.
— Antoine Rivarol
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.
— Antoine Rivarol
It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
— Antoine Rivarol
There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.
— Antoine Rivarol
Silence never yet betrayed any one!
— Antoine Rivarol
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
— Antoine Rivarol
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
— Antoine Rivarol
Tenderness is the infancy of love.
— Antoine Rivarol
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.
— Antoine Rivarol
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.
— Antoine Rivarol
In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
— Antoine Rivarol
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
— Antoine Rivarol
There is even the dignity of vice.
— Antoine Rivarol
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
— Antoine Rivarol
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
— Antoine Rivarol