Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Quotes

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

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.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

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.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.