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Them Quotes by Paul Valery
- History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It…
- My poems mean what people take them to mean.
- 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.…
- In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and this…
- 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 taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle