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From Quotes by Paul Valery
- Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so…
- Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.
- We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate…
- Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.…
- A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first…
- Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
- History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything…
- We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.
- Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
- Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
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