Quotes from Antoine de Rivarol

What is not clear is not French.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

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

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water.

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