Quotes by Pierre Charron

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


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.


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


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.


The true science and study of man is man.