Jean Antoine Petit-Senn quotes
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“The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.”
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“Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.”
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“It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.”
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“Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.”
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“How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!”
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“There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.”
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“The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.”
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“Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.”
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“What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion”
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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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“The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.”
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“In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.”
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“In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.”
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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.”
-- Jean Antoine Petit-SennSource : "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M.ballou, 1886.
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“It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.”
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“It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.”
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“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.”
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“Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.”
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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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“Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.”
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“We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.”
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“Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?”
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“Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.”
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“An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.”
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“The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.”
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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