Pasquier Quesnel famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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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Vices are their own punishment
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
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Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.
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Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
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Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.
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The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
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When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
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To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
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Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.
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While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
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