Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valery
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds
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Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows
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Love is being stupid together.
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well
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To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts
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Politeness is organized indifference
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
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Power without abuse loses its charm
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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best
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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 that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other
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Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.
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 oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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