Paul Ambroise Valery Quotes & Paul Ambroise Valery Sayings

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." Paul Ambroise Valery "There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Paul Ambroise Valery Sayings A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Ambroise Valery Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. Paul Ambroise Valery Adages Our judgments judge us; and nothing reveals us [or] exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. Paul Ambroise Valery Sayings That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. Paul Ambroise Valery What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. Paul Ambroise Valery Popular Quotes