A few “maxims and missiles,” or “pensées et paradoxes,” by the Comte de Rivarol, translated from Rivarol: avec une notice et une portrait (Paris: Mercure de France, 1906), pp. 351–9. For something similar, see “Selections from Vauvenargues” (this blog, 17 September 2020) and “Steps upon the Sand,” Azure Bell (20 October 2020).
Men are
not as wicked as you say. Twenty years it took you to write a bad book; and but
a moment it took them to forget it.
“You spoke
a lot with some rather annoying men.” “I spoke for fear of listening.”
