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Jean Rostand
1894-1977. French biologist and philosopher, in 1959 he was elected to the prestigious Académie française.
1. "To be adult is to be alone."
source: "The Substance of Man"
categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Human
source: "The Substance of Man"
categories: Authority, Government -:- Law and Crime
3. "It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."
source: "The Substance of Man"
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity
4. "In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."
source: "The Substance of Man"
categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Truth and Falsity
5. "I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence."
source: "The Substance of Man"
categories: Human -:- Life and Death
6. "I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."
source: "The Substance of Man"
categories: Reality and Imagination
source: "The Substance of Man"
categories: Friendship and Hostility
8. "Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness."
source: "The Substance of Man"
categories: Various -:- Talent and Genius
9. "God, that checkroom of our dreams."
source: "The Substance of Man"
categories: Dreams and Desires -:- God and Religion
10. "Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."
source: "The Substance of Man"
categories: Art and Culture -:- Beauty and Ugliness
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