Pierre Charron
Pierre Charron
giving advice lost-friendship
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.
pain opposites pleasure
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
humble gay men
Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.
worthy obligation
To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.
eye men long
He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?
folly
The shortest follies are the best.
pain opposites laughing
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.
french-philosopher man science study true
The true science and study of man is man.