Antoine Rivarol Quotes - Page 3

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• There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Wit, Readiness

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• Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

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  Passion, Actors, Reason

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• Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

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  Practice, Impossible, Theory

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• The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

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  Gossip, Tea, Age

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• There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.

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  Flirting, Principles, Duty

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• The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

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  Passion, Character, Ideas

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• Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Art, Nice, Dull

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• Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.

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  Subterfuge, Fallacy, Seeing

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• To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

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  Heart, Ungrateful, May

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• Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

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  Passion, Actors, Reason

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• Mutability is written upon all things.

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  Decay, All Things, Mutability

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