Antoine Rivarol

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

— Antoine Rivarol

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

— Antoine Rivarol

The world is governed by love,--self-love.

— Antoine Rivarol

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

— Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

— Antoine Rivarol

Mutability is written upon all things.

— Antoine Rivarol

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

— Antoine Rivarol

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

— Antoine Rivarol

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

— Antoine Rivarol

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

— 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…

— Antoine Rivarol

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.

— Antoine Rivarol

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

— Antoine Rivarol

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

— Antoine Rivarol

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

— Antoine Rivarol

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

— Antoine Rivarol

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

— 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

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

— Antoine Rivarol

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.

— Antoine Rivarol

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

— Antoine Rivarol

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

— Antoine Rivarol

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most…

— Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

— Antoine Rivarol

There is even the dignity of vice.

— Antoine Rivarol