FRANCOIS GUIZOT

Make money, get rich. Enrichissez-vous.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

The strongest absorbs the weakest, and he has a right to do so.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

As for the calumnies, the insults, the angry cries outside, let them go on building up—no matter what height they reach, it will still fall short of my contempt.

Asia is the continent of origination; Europe the continent of differentiation; and America the continent of reunions.

The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.

The men who make revolutions are always despised by those who profit from them.

Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

The strongest absorbs the weakest, and he has a right to do so.

Asia is the continent of origination; Europe the continent of differentiation; and America the continent of reunions.

Make money, get rich. Enrichissez-vous.

The men who make revolutions are always despised by those who profit from them.

As for the calumnies, the insults, the angry cries outside, let them go on building up—no matter what height they reach, it will still fall short of my contempt.

The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.