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Us Quotes by Paul Valery
- Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.
- 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…
- The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.
- If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.
- Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
- The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
- 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…
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