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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.


Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

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JULES VERNE We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
JULES RENARD If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right
JULES RENARD Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins
JULES RENARD The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
JULES RENARD To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois
JULES RENARD One's native land! There should one live! There die!
JULES VERNE A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears.
JULES FEIFFER