Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
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 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 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;… — Pierre Charron Copy Share
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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