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All Quotes by author - Jean Rostand

" 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. "

" A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. "

" A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. "

" Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. "

" Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. "

" 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. "

" Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. "

" It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. "

" My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. "

" Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. "

" Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. "

" One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god. "

" One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. "

" Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. "

" 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. "

" Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. "

" The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. "

" The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. "

" The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. "

" Theories pass. The frog remains. "

" Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. "

" To be adult is to be alone. "

" To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts. "

" 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. "

" Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. "

" 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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