Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
French Statesman, Revolutionary, Writer, Diplomat, Freemason and Journalist
"He will succeed; for he believes all he says."
"If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich."
"Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success."
"In times of anarchy, one may seem a despot in order to be a savior."
"Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls."
"To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. "