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In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
Jean Rostand
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Biologist
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
Paris
France
Ideals
Unwittingly
Reveal
Vices
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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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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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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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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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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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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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