Antoine Rivarol Quotes

“Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.”

“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.”

“Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.”

“Vices are often habits rather than passions”

“Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds”

“To lose ones self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.”

“Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.”

“Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.”

“Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls”

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

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

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Quotes by Antoine Rivarol