(59 quotes found)
“We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be”
Jean Rostand
“I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”
“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”
“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.”
“Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”
“One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god”
“A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.”
“Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said”
“Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.”
“I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.”
