Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
JULES VERNEHe must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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What you do for money you do badly.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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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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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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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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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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