More from Jean Rostand
- Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
- Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
- Accept loss forever
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Essays, "Character," 1844
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