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

- Pasquier Quesnel

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

- Pasquier Quesnel

Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.

- Pasquier Quesnel

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

- Pasquier Quesnel

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

- Pasquier Quesnel

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

- Pasquier Quesnel

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

- Pasquier Quesnel

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

- Pasquier Quesnel

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

- Pasquier Quesnel