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Jean Rostand Inspirational Quotes (50)

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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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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 a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
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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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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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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
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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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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
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Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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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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Theories pass. The frog remains.
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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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Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
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The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
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To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
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In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
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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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