All Jean Rostand Quotes
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Jean Rostand
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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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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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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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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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
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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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