And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
JULES VERNEI saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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