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.
Vices are often habits rather than passions. - Antoine Rivarol
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
- Antoine Rivarol
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections. - Antoine Rivarol
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
The world is governed by love,--self-love. - Antoine Rivarol
The world is governed by love,--self-love.
True felicity consists of its own consciousness. - Antoine Rivarol
True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it. - Antoine Rivarol
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub! - Antoine Rivarol
It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. - Antoine Rivarol
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. - Antoine Rivarol
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice. - Antoine Rivarol
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
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