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We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.
— Jean Rostand
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
— Jean Rostand
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
— Jean Rostand
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
— Jean Rostand
Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle
— 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.
— Jean Rostand
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
— Jean Rostand
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
— Jean Rostand
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
— Jean Rostand
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
— Jean Rostand
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
— Jean Rostand
We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.
— Jean Rostand
To be adult is to be alone.
— Jean Rostand
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
— Jean Rostand
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
— Jean Rostand
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
— Jean Rostand
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
— Jean Rostand
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
— Jean Rostand
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
— 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
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
— Jean Rostand
There are things that don't deserve to be said briefly.
— Jean Rostand
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
— Jean Rostand
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
— Jean Rostand
Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
— Jean Rostand
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
— Jean Rostand
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
— Jean Rostand
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
— Jean Rostand
Kill one man, and you are murderer
— Jean Rostand
Kill a man and you're a murderer. Kill many and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, you're a god.
— Jean Rostand
There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
— Jean Rostand
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
— Jean Rostand
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
— Jean Rostand
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
— Jean Rostand
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
— Jean Rostand
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
— Jean Rostand
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
— Jean Rostand
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
— Jean Rostand
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
— Jean Rostand
Theories pass. The frog remains.
— Jean Rostand
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
— 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
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
— Jean Rostand
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
— Jean Rostand
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
— Jean Rostand
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
— Jean Rostand
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
— Jean Rostand
There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.
— Jean Rostand
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
— Jean Rostand
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
— Jean Rostand
Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God.
— Jean Rostand
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
— Jean Rostand
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
— Jean Rostand
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
— Jean Rostand
