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Man Quotes by Jean Rostand
- The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
- 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.
- 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…
- Kill one man, and you are murderer
- Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
- Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
- One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
- 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.
- Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
- A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays…
- A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
- Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
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