Talk:Antoine de Rivarol

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• The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

• Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

• 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.

• Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

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

• It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.

• Vices are often habits rather than passions.

• A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

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

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

• The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

• Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

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

Biohistorian15 (talk) 15:34, 7 April 2024 (UTC)