Accounts Quote by Pierre Charron

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

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

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

— Pierre Charron

[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

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

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

— Pierre Charron

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

— Pierre Charron

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

— Pierre Charron

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

— Pierre Charron

The shortest follies are the best.

— Pierre Charron

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

— Pierre Charron

The true science and study of man is man.

— Pierre Charron