Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Pierre Charron's Popular Quotes

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, wh…

- Pierre Charron

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 anybo…

- Pierre Charron

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

- Pierre Charron

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

- Pierre Charron

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

- Pierre Charron

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

- Pierre Charron

The shortest follies are the best.

- Pierre Charron

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

- Pierre Charron

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

- Pierre Charron