Quotes by Antoine Rivarol

• Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
• Vices are often habits rather than passions.
• To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
• The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
• Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
• 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.
• It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
• 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.
• Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
• Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
• Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
• Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.