Jean Antoine Petit-Senn famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Happiness #Hatred #Enemy
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

#Inspirational #Character #Faults
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

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

#Beauty #Earth #Natural
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Learning #Men #May
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Soul #Religion #World
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Gains #Illusion
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

#Heart #Wrinkles #Youth
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

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

#Humility #Portraits #Surround
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

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

#Taste #Impossible #Admiration
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Inspirational #Abundance #Enjoy
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Courage #Wind #Kites
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

#Laughing #Caprice #Please
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Motivational #Scream #Interest
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

#Beautiful #Flirting #Littles
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Self Esteem #Dwarves #Giants
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Bitterness #Vindictive #Angry Women
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Men #Weakness #Vices

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