We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
JULES VERNEBefore all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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