Antoine Rivarol
Antoine Rivarol
Antoine de Rivarolwas a Royalist French writer during the Revolutionary era. He was briefly married to the translator Louisa Henrietta de Rivarol...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionJournalist
CountryFrance
practice impossible theory
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
praise
It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.
sometimes virtue
Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.
cousin stupidity firsts
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
heart ungrateful may
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
daughter mother character
It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.
growing-up heart men
That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.
children people malice
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
civilization doe lapses
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
humanity oblivion fame
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
pity clemency indulgence
In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
men opulence poverty
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
decay written all-things
Mutability is written upon all things.
men brave deeds
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.