Antoine Rivarol Quotes

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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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  People, Political, Steel

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

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  Life, Fear, Past

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• Vices are often habits rather than passions.

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  Passion, Vices, Habit

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

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  Brain, Said, Has Beens

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

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  Fog, Enchantment, Add

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• Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

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  Speech, Internals

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

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  Writing, Character, Men

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• A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

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  Gold, Coats, May

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• The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

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  Men, Helping, Fortune

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• 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.

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  People, Democracy, Nero

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

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  Nine, Way, Persons

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

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  Men, Bravery, Deeds

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

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  Self, Self Love, World

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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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  Men, Generosity, Envy

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• The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

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  People, Worry, Doe

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• Women read each other at a single glance.

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  Glances

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• Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

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  Time, Giving, Firsts

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

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  Hands, Ideas, Bears

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• Silence never yet betrayed any one!

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  Silence, Betrayed

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

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  Civilization, Doe, Lapses

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• Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.

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  Cat, Caress

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• That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

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  Growing Up, Heart, Men

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

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  Men, Opulence, Poverty

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

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  Heart, Men, Mind

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• The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

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  Children, People, Malice

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