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“We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.”
-- Jean Rostand

#People #Envy #Gossip
“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Education #Men #Made
“Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Death #Badass #Men
“Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Beautiful #Regret #Mistake
“Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Giving #Feelings #Said
“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.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Heart #Power #Humanity
“One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Science #Discovery #Order
“To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Love #Ideas #Littles
“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Knowledge #Important #Sometimes
“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Time #Men #Long
“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.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Faith #Stupid #Vanity
“To be adult is to be alone.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Time #Loneliness #Being Alone
“Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Funny #Marriage #Witty
“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Beauty #Art #Being Beautiful
“Theories pass. The frog remains.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Frogs #Theory #Remains
“Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Thinking #Computer #Classroom
“The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Independent #Belief #Conviction
“The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Book #Writing #Past
“We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Believe #Long #Giving
“I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Use #Paradise #Hell
“I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Thinking #Different #Appearance
“Kill one man, and you are murderer”
-- Jean Rostand

#Men #Murderer
“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.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Men #Thinking #Certain
“There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Truth #Littles #Might
“God, that checkroom of our dreams.”
-- Jean Rostand

#God #Dream
“Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Criticism #Critics
“In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Party #Order #Three
“We are not naÃ¯ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Jobs #Teaching #Men
“Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Self Worth #Important
“There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.”
-- Jean Rostand

#Past #Men #Wish

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