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Jean Rostand Quotes

«Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.»
«One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god»
«We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be»
Author: Jean Rostand (Biologist, Historian) | Keywords: envying
«A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.»
«Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said»
«I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.»
«The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.»
Author: Jean Rostand (Biologist, Historian) | About: Admiration | Keywords: admires, at length
«Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.»
«I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.»
«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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