A Quote by Pierre Charron
The shortest follies are the best.
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The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
The art of Navigation demonstrates how, by the shortest good way, by the aptest direction, and in the shortest time, a sufficient ship, between any two places (in passage navigable) assigned, may be conducted; and in all storms and natural disturbances chancing, how to use the best possible means, whereby to recover the place first assigned.
Mathematical Preface
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
The best sentence? The shortest.
But the shortest works are always the best.
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.
Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
I bet that the best thing about being a hermaphrodite is that you always get to use the bathroom with the shortest line.
The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that.
My dreams are all follies.
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