Vices are often habits rather than passions.

- Antoine Rivarol

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

- Antoine Rivarol

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

- Antoine Rivarol

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.

- Antoine Rivarol

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

- Antoine Rivarol

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

- Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

- Antoine Rivarol

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

- Antoine Rivarol

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

- Antoine Rivarol