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Pierre Charron has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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.
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The true science and study of mankind is man.
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He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study…
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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it…
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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
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Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into…
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Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.
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Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.…
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact…
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[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and…
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue…
— Teresa of Avila
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been…
— Bernard Baruch
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant…
— Joseph Addison
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
— Josh Billings
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
— Ambrose Bierce
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We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried…
— Thomas Jefferson
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