Pierre Charron Quotes

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• All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
• The true science and study of mankind is man.
• He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
• Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
• 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…
• 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…
• God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
• Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.
• Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.
• 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…
• 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…
• [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,…
• Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.
• The shortest follies are the best.
• The true science and study of man is man.
• 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…
• The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

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