Quotes by Charron, Pierre

The true science and study of man, is man himself. >>

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable ad >>

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be consta >>

Quotations about Self-knowledge

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain o >>

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. >>

Our lives teach us who we are. >>

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

Charron, Pierre