His far more ample prose writings, peppered with many aphorisms and bons mots, reveal a conservative and skeptical outlook on human nature, verging on the cynical. However, he never said or wrote anything giving aid or comfort to any form of totalitarianism popular during his lifetime.Raymond Poincaré, Louis de Broglie, André Gide, Henri Bergson, and Albert Einstein [4] all respected Valéry's thinking and became friendly correspondents. Valéry was often asked to write articles on topics not of his choosing