Paul Valery

Power without abuse loses its charm.

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.

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

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Love is being stupid together.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

At times I think and at times I am.

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

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