Jean Rostand Quotes
56 Jean Rostand quotes:
"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."
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"God, that checkroom of our dreams."
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"It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed."
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"To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts."
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"One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it."
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"Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness."
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"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.."
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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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"We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be."
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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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"It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of."
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"Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth."
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"The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God."
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"Theories pass. The frog remains."
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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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"The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to."
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"The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious."
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"Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any."
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"Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing."
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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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