Quotes by Jean Fabre

• We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
• Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
• The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
• Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
• Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.