Paul Valery

"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."

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

"Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows."

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

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