28 Quotes by Pierre Charron

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

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.

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

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

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

The true science and study of man is man.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

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

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.