Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Vernewas a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 February 1828
CityNantes, France
CountryFrance
art electric great greatest humanity less printing science steam
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?
travel
Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!
cannot food industry proper stomach
The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.
Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.
distinct dost forces movement soul thou understand
Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?
betting england everybody higher knows men mere
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
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It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.
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You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
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I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.
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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.
submitted
The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.
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Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.
course fellows remain
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
change forget life present
'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.