The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
About Pierre Charron
Pierre Charron (French pronunciation: [pjeR SaRo]; 1541 – 16 November 1603, Paris), French Catholic theologian and major contributor to the new thought of the 17th century. He is remembered for his controversial form of skepticism and his separation of ethics from religion as an independent philosophical discipline.
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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
French theologian and philosopher
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
French theologian and philosopher
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.
French theologian and philosopher
The true science and study of man is man.
French theologian and philosopher
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
French theologian and philosopher