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We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
— 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
No woman dares express all she thinks.
— 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
Without big words, how could many people say small things?
— 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
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
— 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
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Age whitens hairs, but not sin.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
— 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
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
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
— 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
How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.
— 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
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
— 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
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
There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.
— 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
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
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
— 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
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
— 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
It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Rage is a short-lived fury.
— 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
None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.
— 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
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
— 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
It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
— 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
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
— 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
Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn