Men are more inclined to ask curious questions, than to obtain necessary instruction.
—Pasquier Quesnel
Topics: Curiosity
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
—Pasquier Quesnel
Topics: Anger
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
—Pasquier Quesnel
Topics: Enthusiasm, Zeal
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
—Pasquier Quesnel
Topics: Truth
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one’s self.
—Pasquier Quesnel
Topics: Punishment
We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.
—Pasquier Quesnel
Topics: Procrastination
Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.
—Pasquier Quesnel
Topics: Tourism, Travel
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- Albert Memmi Tunisian Novelist
- Claude Levi-Strauss French Anthropologist
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin French Jesuit Scientist
- Simone de Beauvoir French Philosopher
- Victor Hugo French Novelist
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