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One Quotes by Jean Rostand
- 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.
- There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
- In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
- The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
- I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
- Kill one man, and you are murderer
- Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
- Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle
- Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
- It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
- To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.
- To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
- One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
- Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
- 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…
- 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.
- One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
- To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
- To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
- One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
- The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
- 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…
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