1.
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
2.
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
3.
The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
4.
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
5.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
6.
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
7.
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
8.
Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
9.
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
10.
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
11.
The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
12.
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
13.
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
14.
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
15.
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
16.
There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
17.
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
18.
There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
19.
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
20.
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
21.
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
22.
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
23.
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
24.
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
25.
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
26.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
27.
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
28.
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
29.
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
30.
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
31.
No woman dares express all she thinks.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
32.
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.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
33.
None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
34.
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
35.
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
36.
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
37.
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.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
38.
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!
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
39.
Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
40.
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.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
41.
Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
42.
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
43.
The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
44.
Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
45.
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
46.
Without big words, how could many people say small things?
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
47.
The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
48.
Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
49.
It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
50.
Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
