Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes
Top 67 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.
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.
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
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!
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.
Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
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.
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.
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.