Pierre Charron Quotes

• 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

  Giving, Advice, Lost Friendship

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• 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

  Sabio, Sabiduría, Aprendizaje

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

  Pierre Charron

  Relationship, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

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

  Pierre Charron

  Pain, Opposites, Pleasure

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• 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

  Passion, May, Easier

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• Las riquezas deben ser admitidas en nuestras casas, pero no en nuestros corazones; podemos tomarlas en nuestra posesión, pero no en nuestros afectos.

  Pierre Charron

  Heart, House, May

  Pierre Charron (1707). “Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...”

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• 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

  Mind, Hardship, Fortune

  Pierre Charron (1707). “Of wisdom: Three books. Written originally in French, by the Sieur de Charron. With an account of the author. Made English by George Stanhope, ...”, p.149

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

  Pierre Charron

  Atheist, Odds, Laughing

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• Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

  Pierre Charron

  Cities, Bird, Soul

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

  Pierre Charron

  Gratitude, Duty

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• El que se jacta de sus antepasados confiesa que no tiene virtud propia. Ninguna persona vivió jamás por nuestro honor; ni debe reputarse nuestro el que fue mucho antes de que tuviéramos un ser; pues ¿qué ventaja puede suponer para un ciego saber que sus padres tenían buenos ojos? ¿Acaso ve un ápice mejor?

  Pierre Charron

  Ojo, Hombres, Largo

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• Tener una obligación con un amigo digno es una felicidad, y no puede ser un menosprecio.

  Pierre Charron

  Worthy, Obligation

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• Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to. He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it.

  Pierre Charron

  Gratitude, Mind, Together

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• Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.

  Pierre Charron

  Pain, Opposites, Laughing

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• The true science and study of mankind is man.

  Pierre Charron

  Science, Men, Study

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• 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

  Sabio, Hombres, Mente

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• The shortest follies are the best.
  [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

  Pierre Charron

  Plus, Folly

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• 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

  Blood, Vapor, Ancestry

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• 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

  Children, Revenge, Fire

  "Treasury of Thought: Forming an encyclopædia of quotation from ancient and modern authors". Book edited by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 123, 1894.

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

  Pierre Charron

  Wise, Men, World

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• La mutabilidad es la insignia de la enfermedad. Es raro que un hombre siga deseando y pensando lo mismo dos días seguidos. Ahora está a favor de casarse; y ahora prefiere una amante a una esposa. Ahora es ambicioso y aspirante; ahora el sirviente más mezquino no es más humilde que él. A esta hora despilfarra su dinero; a la siguiente se vuelve avaro. Unas veces es frugal y serio; otras, profuso, aireado y alegre.

  Pierre Charron

  Humble, Gay, Men

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• 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

  Men, Contemplation, Subjects

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• The shortest follies are the best.

  Pierre Charron

  Folly

  "Las Sagesse". Book I, Chapter 3, 1601.

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• [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

  Gratitude, Men, Differences

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