Jean Rostand Quotes
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To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.
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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
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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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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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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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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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Kill one man, and you are murderer.
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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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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
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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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What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
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Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
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There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
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We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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Theories pass. The frog remains.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
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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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Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
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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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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
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Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
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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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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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What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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