Pasquier Quesnel quotes
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“There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.”
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“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.”
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“Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.”
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“The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.”
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“We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.”
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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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“Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.”
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“Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.”
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“Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.”
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“Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.”
Source : Albert Pierrepoint (1974). “Executioner, Pierrepoint”
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“Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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“To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.”
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Source : G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd
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