A scholar has to know a little of everything.
JULES VERNEIt is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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