Pasquier Quesnel Quotations

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.

Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.

Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.