--- title: "1 Man True Quotes By Paul Valery" description: "1 Man True quotes by Paul Valery. Plus more from Paul Valery and more Man True sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58a/paul-valery-1464_secret_a-man-s-true-secrets-are-more-secret-to_1752594.jpg" --- > [A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/a-man-s-true-secrets-are-more-secret-to-himself-than-they-are-to/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58a/paul-valery-1464_secret_a-man-s-true-secrets-are-more-secret-to_1752594.jpg) ## More by Paul Valery > [In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/in-the-eyes-of-those-lovers-of-perfection-a-work-is-never-finished-a/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/o-socrates-the-universe-cannot-for-one-instant-endure-to-be-only-what/) [Paul Valéry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/we-civilizations-now-know-ourselves-mortal/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/it-seems-to-me-that-the-soul-when-alone-with-itself-and-speaking-to/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/serious-people-have-few-ideas-people-with-ideas-are-never-serious/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [“I am now going to make an admission. I confess, I agree, that all these good people who protested, who laughed, who did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/i-am-now-going-to-make-an-admission-i-confess-i-agree-that-all-these/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/degas-is-one-of-the-very-few-painters-who-have-given-the-floor-its/) [Paul Valéry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/politics-is-the-art-of-preventing-people-from-busying-themselves-with/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/god-created-man-and-finding-him-not-sufficiently-alone-gave-him-a/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/the-most-ridiculous-were-those-who-on-their-own-authority-made/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/the-folly-of-mistaking-oneself-for-an-oracle-is-built-right-into-us/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/thought-must-be-hidden-in-the-verse-like-nutritional-virtue-in-a-fruit/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/to-be-sincere-means-to-be-the-same-person-when-one-is-with-oneself/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/no-work-of-art-is-ever-completed-it-is-only-abandoned/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) > [Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/interruption-incoherence-surprise-are-the-ordinary-conditions-of-our/) [Paul Valery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-valery/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/man-true/paul-valery/#itemlist", "name": "1 Man True Quotes By Paul Valery", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Valery" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-valery/a-man-s-true-secrets-are-more-secret-to-himself-than-they-are-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58a/paul-valery-1464_secret_a-man-s-true-secrets-are-more-secret-to_1752594.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58a/paul-valery-1464_secret_a-man-s-true-secrets-are-more-secret-to_1752594.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58a/paul-valery-1464_secret_a-man-s-true-secrets-are-more-secret-to_1752594.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.” — Paul Valery", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/man-true/paul-valery/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/man-true/paul-valery/", "name": "Man True Quotes by Paul Valery", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/man-true/paul-valery/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58a/paul-valery-1464_secret_a-man-s-true-secrets-are-more-secret-to_1752594.jpg" }, "description": "1 Man True quotes by Paul Valery. 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