Famous quotes containing the words marquis de, marquis and/or mirabeau:
“The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigour of mathematical calculation.”
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)
“To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.”
—Honoré Gabriel Riquet, Comte De Mirabeau (1749–1791)