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.
JULES VERNESo 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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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