Top 20 Pierre Charron Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.
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#3. He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
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#4. Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.
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#5. 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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#7. It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.
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#8. 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.
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#9. To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.
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#10. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
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#12. Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.
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#13. 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 with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
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#14. The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
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#15. Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.
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#16. Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.
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#17. [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, that makes them equal.
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#19. Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
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#20. 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.
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