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

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

- Paul Valery

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

- Paul Valery

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

- Paul Valery

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

- 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.

- Paul Valery

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

- Paul Valery

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

- Paul Valery