Best quotes by Paul Valery on Man

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  • A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
    - Paul Valery
  • A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
    - Paul Valery
  • God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
    - Paul 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 Valery
  • A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
    - Paul Valery
  • A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
    - Paul Valery
  • 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.
    - Paul Valery