More From Jean Rostand
- "In politics, yesterday’s lie is attacked only to flatter today’s."
- "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."
- "Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you."
More In Great
- "The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."― Jean Baudrillard
- "I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."― Benjamin Franklin
- "Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."― Aesop