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… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
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… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
[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… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
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