Quotes by Paul Valery

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own...

#Politics

We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary...

#Self-love

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people...

#War

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same...

#Poetry, #Writing