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Quotes from 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 how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
~ Pierre Charron
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.
~ Pierre Charron
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 or wrong.
~ Pierre Charron
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 to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
~ Pierre Charron
The true science and study of man is man.
~ 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 true science and study of mankind is man.
~ Pierre Charron
The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]
~ Pierre Charron
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
~ Pierre Charron
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
~ Pierre Charron
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
~ 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
He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.
~ Pierre Charron
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.
~ 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 how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
~ Pierre Charron
The true science and study of man is man.
~ Pierre Charron
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 or wrong.
~ Pierre Charron