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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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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 whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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