Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery
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. – Paul Valery
War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery