Top 71 Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes
#2. In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
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#4. Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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.
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#17. The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.
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#18. There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
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#20. 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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#23. 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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#27. We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
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#28. 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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#30. 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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#32. The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
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#33. We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.
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#35. When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
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#40. Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.
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#41. Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.
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#46. 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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#48. An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
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#54. Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.
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#58. Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.
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#61. 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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#62. That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
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#64. 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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#71. 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.
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