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He who receives a benefit sho...

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

Pierre Charron 32 quotes

It is certainly much easier w...

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

Pierre Charron 32 quotes

The advice of friends must be...

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 32 quotes

Wounds and hardships provoke ...

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

Pierre Charron 32 quotes

The shortest follies are the ...

The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

Pierre Charron 32 quotes

Mutability is the badge of in...

Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.

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The proper Science and Subjec...

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

Pierre Charron 32 quotes

The most excellent and divine...

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 32 quotes

Gratitude is a duty none can ...

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

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He that boasts of his ancesto...

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 32 quotes

[Envy not for...] Whatever di...

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

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All religions are pieced toge...

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

Pierre Charron 32 quotes

Despair is like forward child...

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.

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Great towns are but a large s...

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

Pierre Charron 32 quotes

Gratitude is a virtue disposi...

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 32 quotes

The true science and study of...

The true science and study of man is man.

Pierre Charron 32 quotes

Pleasure and pain, though dir...

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Pierre Charron 32 quotes

The easiest way to be cheated...

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Pierre Charron 32 quotes

The most excellent and divine...

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 32 quotes

God, Nature, the wise, the wo...

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron 32 quotes

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