Jules Payot

“La liberté spirituelle est la plus précieuse des conquêtes humaines. Elle constitue notre raison d'être, et sur ce point l'accord des religions et des philosophies est complet.”
― Jules Payot, L'apprentissage de l'art d'écrire

“France, are official positions which are badly salaried and of little account, without any future or horizon, where the person ages as an employee and daily participates in the nothingness of an almost sterile occupation, to the decay and gradual numbing of his faculties, but, in which he rejoices unspeakably, in not being obliged to think or decide or act. A tutelary regulation impresses on his activity the regular movements of a clock, and excuses him from the fatiguing privilege of acting and living.”
― Jules Payot