Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes
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Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
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In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
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How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
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No woman dares express all she thinks.
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It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
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It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
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Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
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A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
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The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
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Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
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Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
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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!
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The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
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None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.
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Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
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The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
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Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
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The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
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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.
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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.
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In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
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When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
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There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.
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Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
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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.
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There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
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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.
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Without big words, how could many people say small things?
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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.
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