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Pierre Charron
13 quotes
“La vraie science et le vrai étude de l'homme c'est l'homme.”
Pierre Charron (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book I, Ch. 1. Stanhope's translation, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) p. 488. Different translation in H. L. Mencken (ed.) A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles ([1942…
“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 mouths perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.”
Pierre Charron (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul, like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.”
Pierre Charron (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than others.”
Pierre Charron (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.”
Pierre Charron (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.”
Pierre Charron (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.”
Pierre Charron (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence laughs at them; but others are so noble, illustrious, miraculous, and mysterious that the intellect can make no sense of them and finds them unpalatable. The human intellect is only capable of tackling mediocre subjects: it disdains petty subjects, and is startled by large ones. There is no reason to be surprised if it finds any religion hard to accept at first, for all are deficient in the mediocre and the commonplace, nor that it should require skill to induce belief. For the strong intellect laughs at religion, while the weak and superstitious mind marvels at it but is easily scandalized by it.”
Pierre Charron (1541–1603) said by 1603 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book II, Ch. 5, p. 345. Reported in Michael Hunter and David Wootton (eds.) Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment (1992) p. 99