Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes & Sayings

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Without big words, how could many people say small things? — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep! — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

No woman dares express all she thinks. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Rage is a short-lived fury. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Age whitens hairs, but not sin. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water! — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little? — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn