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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Jean Rostand
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
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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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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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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 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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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
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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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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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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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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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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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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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