who was born in Limoges
. He was the brother of botanist Étienne Pierre Ventenat
(1757-1808).
Ventenat was a member of a mission led by Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux
(1737-1793) to search for explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse
(1741-1788), of whom there was no news of for five years. Ventenat served as chaplain
and naturalist
on the expedition. In 1793 he and other members of the expedition were captured by Dutch authorities, and imprisoned in the Dutch East Indies
.
The great advantage of abstinence education is that it introduces teenagers to hypocrisy at an early age.
Let the fundamentalist Christians raise losers. I want my teenagers to have as much sex as they can possibly get.
If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Usez, n'abusez point […] L'abstinence ou l'excès ne fit jamais d'heureux.