67 Quotes by Antoine Rivarol

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

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

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.