Top 32 Charron Quotes
#1. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre Charron
#3. 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
#4. Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Pierre Charron
#5. Again. Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?
Hanya Yanagihara
#7. You know, when I was a kid, I always thought Id grow up to be a hero.
Butch Cassidy
#9. [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.
Pierre Charron
#10. At first when the Paladin heard us tell about the glories of the Royal Audience he was broken-hearted because he was not taken with us to it; next, his talk was full of what he would have done if he had been there; and within two days he was telling what he did do when he was there.
Mark Twain
#11. Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.
Pierre Charron
#12. 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.
Pierre Charron
#13. The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
Pierre Charron
#14. 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.
Pierre Charron
#15. Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.
Pierre Charron
#17. 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
#18. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
Abraham Lincoln
#19. To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.
Pierre Charron
#20. As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.
Judy Woodruff
#21. 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
#22. 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.
Pierre Charron
#25. The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
Giordano Bruno
#26. All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
Pierre Charron
#27. Most people would call me incompetent, clumsy, flawed..."
"A pearl is a flaw. A diamond is an accident of nature. In all of creation, there's nothing more precious than the unexpected deviation.
Todd Mitchell
#28. Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.
Pierre Charron
#29. He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
Pierre Charron
#30. Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.
Pierre Charron
#31. Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
Clare Short
#32. Humanity hadn't changed, but it had. The venality and the nobility, the cruelty and the grace. They were all still there. It was just the particulars he felt shifting away from under him.
James S.A. Corey
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