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

- Jean Rostand

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

- Jean Rostand

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

- Jean Rostand

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

- Jean Rostand

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

- Jean Rostand

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

- Jean Rostand

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

- Jean Rostand

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

- Jean Rostand

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

- Jean Rostand