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Jean Rostand Quotes

«I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.»
«It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.»
«To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.»
«The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.»
«In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.»
Author: Jean Rostand (Biologist, Historian) | Keywords: attacked
«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..»
Author: Jean Rostand (Biologist, Historian) | Keywords: renown
«I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.»
«The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.»
«The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.»
Author: Jean Rostand (Biologist, Historian) | Keywords: vocation
«Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.»
Author: Jean Rostand (Biologist, Historian) | Keywords: take heed

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