Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Revolution #Problem #French Revolution
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Work #World #Leisure
I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Unsaid
Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Love #Long #Absence
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Royal #Revolution #Executive Power
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Essence #Reign #Problem
Nothing is impossible to the man who will
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Men #Impossible #He Man
Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Believe #Love Life #Treats
None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Strong #Passion #Greatness
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Honesty #Mean #Rich
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Emotional #People #Evil
Never let me hear that foolish word again.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Jargon #Foolish #Let Me

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