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Pasquier Quesnel

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Pasquier Quesnel was a theologian who wrote in French and was born in Paris on 14 July 1634.

He was educated at the University of Paris before going on to work as a theologian. A citizen of the Kingdom of France, he spent his career engaged with theological questions and produced work in the French language. The facts of his life trace an arc from his Paris origins through his education and professional life as a theologian.

He died in Amsterdam on 2 December 1719.

Quotes by Pasquier Quesnel

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another’s by exposing his faults.
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A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another’s by exposing his faults.
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There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one’s self.
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There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one’s self.
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There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.
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There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.
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#punishment
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
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Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
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#anger-management
We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.
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We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.
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#procrastination
A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.
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A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.
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#persons
Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.
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Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.
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#worry
Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.
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Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.
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#limits
Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.
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Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.
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#curiosity
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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#enlightening
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