One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

Quote by Jean Rostand

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

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

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror;...

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror;...

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined...

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined...

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity...

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity...

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

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

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste...

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste...

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

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

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are...

Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are...

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not...

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not...

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole...

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole...

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate...

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate...

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is