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Danh ngôn của Paul Valery (Sứ mệnh: 7)

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
At times I think and at times I am.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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.
Love is being stupid together.
Power without abuse loses its charm.
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.