Rostand, Jean
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Rostand, Jean
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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Greatness
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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Books - Reading
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn t write them again, and wouldn t want to.
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Books - Reading
To hate fatigues.
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Hatred
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
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God
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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Future
I don t judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
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Government
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
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God
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..
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Fame
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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Paradise
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
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Involvement
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
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Ideals and Idealism
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.
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Judgment and Judges
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
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Ideas
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
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Power
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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Mistakes
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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Opinions
In politics, yesterday s lie is attacked only to flatter today s.
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Politicians and Politics
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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Modesty
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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Power
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one s party three times a day.
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Politicians and Politics
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
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Prejudice
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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Truth
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 of the human mind.
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Mistakes
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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Science and Scientists
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
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Science and Scientists
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 path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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Science and Scientists
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
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Self-image
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
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Theory
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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Science and Scientists
We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
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Purity
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 never any error so gross that it won t one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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Science and Scientists
To reflect is to disturb one s thoughts.
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Thoughts and Thinking
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
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Understanding
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
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Reality
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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Beauty
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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Admiration
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
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Critics and Criticism
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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Age and Aging
To be adult is to be alone.
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Adulthood
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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Belief
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
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Aphorisms and Epigrams
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
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Agreement
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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Atheism