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Jean Rostand Inspirational Quotes (50)

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It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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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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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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God, that checkroom of our dreams.
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
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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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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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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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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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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
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Kill one man, and you are murderer.
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
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When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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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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We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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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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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
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