Pierre Charron Quotes

France, Philosopher
1541 – November, 16, 1603.

Pierre Charron (1541 – 16 November 1603) was a French 16th-century Catholic theologian and philosopher, and a disciple and contemporary of Michel de Montaigne.

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.

Pierre Charron
- Good
- Wisdom
- Study
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
- Rest
- Fire

The true science and study of man is man.

Pierre Charron
- True
- Science
- Study
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron
- World
- God
- Nature
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Pierre Charron
- Pain
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Pierre Charron
- Believe