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Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
Jean Rostand
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Biologist
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
Jean Rostand
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
Jean Rostand
What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
Jean Rostand
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Jean Rostand
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
Jean Rostand
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
Jean Rostand
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Jean Rostand
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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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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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Jean Rostand
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Jean Rostand
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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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Jean Rostand
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
Jean Rostand
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
Jean Rostand
Kill one man, and you are murderer.
Jean Rostand
