Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Nothing is impossible to the man who will

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

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

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

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

War is the national industry of Prussia.

Never let me hear that foolish word again.

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.