French - Author | February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905
It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.
Jules Verne
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.
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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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One's native land! There should one live! There die!
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.
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Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
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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.
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The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.
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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
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