Antoine RivarolThinkers

Architecture is a ride... a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the in tensest hatreds.

Friendship is not love — there is a huge difference between them. It's day and night.

Gold is, like the sun, able to melt wax and harden clay, expand great souls and contract bad hearts.

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

The Mind is the partial side of men ; the heart is everything.

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

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.

Panic is the stampede of our self-possession.

The Philosopher is an anatomist and not a doctor. They dissect, but do not heal.