Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau, a historian (1749 - 1791), is quoted 13 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Love, Problem, Revolution and War.

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War is the national industry of Prussia.

Nothing is impossible to the man who will

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Never let me hear that foolish word again.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

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

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

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 baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

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

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

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.

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