Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau Quotes & Sayings

#1. If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

#2. None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

#3. Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

#4. Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

#5. To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

#6. I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

#7. Nothing is impossible to the man who will

#8. Never let me hear that foolish word again.

#9. I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

#10. Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

#11. 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.

#12. War is the national industry of Prussia.

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau Quotes