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 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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