"I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell."

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Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

Jean Rostand

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“Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.”
“One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.”
“Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.”
“But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.”
“The cells are thus the stomachs of which the plant has millions like mouths.”

Source : Lorenz Oken (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.264
“History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.”
“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.”
“Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.”

Source : John (of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres) (1963). “The statesman's book of John of Salisbury: being the fourth, fifth, and sixth books, and selections from the seventh and eighth books, of the Policraticus”

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