Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Paul Valery Read Quote
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. Paul Valery Read Quote
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. Paul Valery Read Quote
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. Paul Valery Read Quote
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. Paul Valery Read Quote
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul Valery Read Quote
