The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
Vices are often habits rather than passions. - Antoine Rivarol
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
- Antoine Rivarol
The world is governed by love,--self-love. - Antoine Rivarol
The world is governed by love,--self-love.
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 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.
True felicity consists of its own consciousness. - Antoine Rivarol
True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
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!
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. - Antoine Rivarol
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. - Antoine Rivarol
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
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.
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