JAIME PASQUIER

Jaime Pasquier is a #1 Amazon Bestselling Author writing history, philosophy, and fiction about the forces that shape human character and political destiny.

His work sits where two disciplines meet, and he has spent a lifetime inside both: the world of ideas and the world of results. Four decades in financial services, as founder and president of his own firm, gave him a long look at careers succeeding and unravelling, at character holding or collapsing under pressure. It led him to a conclusion no spreadsheet could capture — that the most consequential variable in any life is not talent, strategy, or circumstance. It is who you are when it costs something to be that person.

The books grow out of that conviction, and out of a family history stretching across continents and generations, in which questions of exile, survival, and moral inheritance were never abstract. In THE VIRTUOUS LIFE: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living, he draws on Stoicism, Aristotelian virtue ethics, Buddhism, and Confucianism to reconstruct the cardinal virtues as actionable skills rather than distant ideals — tracing the traditions that built Western civilization, and asking whether we still possess the character to sustain it. In THE LAWS OF DESIRE, he turns two thousand years of writing on love toward the way we court, connect, and disconnect today.

His fiction opens the same questions through a different door: how people behave under extreme pressure, and what those choices finally cost. THE LAST ARISTOCRATS, published in Spanish as CUARENTA Y SIETE PUÑALADAS, rests on fifteen years of research into the 1847 murder of Duchess Fanny Sebastiani de Choiseul-Praslin — a French peer's crime, his staged death, and the long exile that followed him across two continents.

Educated in economics at George Mason University and the humanities at Marymount University, Pasquier writes in English, Spanish, and French, and lives in Washington, D.C.

★ #1 Amazon Best Seller — Greek & Roman Philosophy

★ #1 Amazon Best Seller — 17th & 18th Century Philosophy

★ Top 5 Best Seller — Ethics & Morality