Antoine de Rivarol
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Antoine de Rivarol (26 June 1753 – 11 April 1801) was a Royalist French writer and translator who lived during the Revolutionary era.
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- The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.
- Quoted by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in The Menace of the Herd (1943), p. 103
- Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
- Discourse sur l'Universalité de la Langue Française (1784)
- La raison est historienne, mais les passions sont actrices.
- Translation: Reason is a historian, but the passions are actors.
- Maximes et pensées, anecdotes, et bons mots, in Œuvres choisies (Paris: Libraire des bibliophiles, 1880), Vol. I, p. 237
