Quote: The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: The true science and study of man, is man himself. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] [Pierre Charron]
Quote: With emptie hands men may no haukes lure. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: The true science and study of mankind is man. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: The shortest follies are the best. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better? [Pierre Charron]
Quote: Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] [Pierre Charron]
Quote: Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to. He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it. [Pierre Charron]
Quote: Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. [Pierre Charron]