The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences. - Paul Valery
Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.
- Paul Valery
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations. - Paul Valery
Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph. - Paul Valery
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
We hope vaguely but dread precisely. - Paul Valery
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions. - Paul Valery
Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. - Paul Valery
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. - Paul Valery
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
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