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Pasquier Quesnel

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


— Pasquier Quesnel


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


— Pasquier Quesnel


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After three months imprisonment he made a highly dramatic escape and settled at Amsterdam where he spent the remainder of his life. There he soon became prominent; he took a leading part in scholarly controversy for example against Joseph Anthelmi. He took refuge with the friendly Cardinal Coislin bishop of Orléans; four years later however foreseeing that a fresh storm of persecution was about to burst he fled to Brussels and took up his abode with Antoine Arnauld.

There he soon became prominent; he took a leading part in scholarly controversy for example against Joseph Anthelmi. It appeared in many forms and under various titles the original germ going back so far as 1668; the first complete edition was publiPasquier Quesneld in 1692. Pasquier Quesnel (July 14 1634 – December 2 1719) was a French Jansenist theologian.

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