What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
JULES VERNEA scholar has to know a little of everything.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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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 is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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