To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.
Interpretation
Enduring unavoidable situations is a practical approach to life.
Jules Verne suggests that while accepting what one cannot change may not result in extraordinary achievements, it is a sensible and pragmatic philosophy. This idea emphasizes the importance of resilience and practicality in the face of life's challenges.
In practice
During a motivational speech about dealing with life's challenges.
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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.
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.
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.
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.
The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.
The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.
My perception has changed from thinking if someone's in jail they're supposed to be, to there's a lot of factors that's not that simple.
Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
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