Jean Rostand Quotes

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

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