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

— Antoine de Rivarol Attributed Treasury of Thought (1881)

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The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or a Marcus Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marcus Aurelius.

God is the highest measure of our incapacity; the universe, space itself, are not so inaccessible.

Of Man, His Intellectual Faculties, and His Main Ideas (1797)

The being that only feels does not yet think, and the being that thinks feels always.

Of Man, His Intellectual Faculties, and His Main Ideas (1797)

The man who speaks is the man who thinks out loud.

De l'universalité de la langue française (1784)

It is prose which gives sway to a language, because it is quite usual; poetry is only a luxury object.

De l'universalité de la langue française (1784)

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