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Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Jean Rostand
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
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On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
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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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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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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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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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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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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
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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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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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Theories pass. The frog remains.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
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Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
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