Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.
Pierre CharronGreat towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.
Pierre CharronGod, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre CharronAll religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
Pierre CharronHe who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
Pierre CharronMutability 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