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
cannonball created man providence
If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.
himself homage man mankind merit owes
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
achieve capable man men whatever
Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve
beyond change conditions creator given mankind movement order powers system
To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.
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It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
alone himself man unhealthy vice vulgar
It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
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When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.
cannot listen man nature oppose principal proud reasoning refuses
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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The way of describing this unlooked-for scene, the history of the patriot ship, told at first so coldly, and the emotion with which this strange man pronounced the last words, the name of the Avenger, the significance of which could not escape me, all impressed itself deeply on my mind. My eyes did not leave the Captain, who, with his hand stretched out to sea, was watching with a glowing eye the glorious wreck.
men thinking one-man
What one man can think, another man can do.
father men wisest-man
The wisest man may be a blind father.
almost cause evils inevitably leads possession thirst
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
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When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
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Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.