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Jean Rostand Quotes
Best Quotes by Jean Rostand (Top 10)
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Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
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We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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More Jean Rostand Quotes
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To be adult is to be alone.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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We are not naﾃδｯve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
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